The best way to replace the deprecated GenericGenerator
Introduction In this article, I’m going to show you the best way to replace the deprecated @GenericGenerator when upgrading your application to Hibernate 7.
The best way to clean up test data with Spring and Hibernate
Introduction In this article, I’m going to show you the best way to clean up test data when using Spring and Hibernate. While it’s very common to use the @DataJpaTest annotation when implementing integration tests, in this blog post, you will see why you are better off avoiding using this annotation.
How to map the Oracle TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE with JPA
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain how to map the Oracle TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE with JPA and Hibernate. While the DATE and TIMESTAMP column types are suitable for mapping the LocalDateTime, the TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE column type allows us to map both the ZonedDateTime and OffsetDateTime.
A beginner’s guide to Spring Data Envers
Introduction In this article, we are going to investigate the Spring Data Envers project and see how to get the best out of it. Hibernate Envers is a Hibernate ORM extension that allows us to track entity changes with almost no changes required on the application part. Just like Envers plugs into Hibernate ORM in order to build an audit log for entity changes, the Spring Data Envers project plugs into Spring Data JPA to provide audit logging capabilities to JPA Repositories.
How to integrate Jakarta Data with Spring and Hibernate
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how we can integrate Jakarta Data with Spring and Hibernate. Jakarta Data is a new Jakarta EE specification that provides a common API for building data Repositories and data access objects. If you are familiar with Spring Data JPA, you will see that Jakarta Data is very much inspired by this Spring API.
