Connection Monitoring with JPA and Hibernate
Introduction In this article, I’m going to show you how you can set up connection monitoring for your JPA and Hibernate application, no matter if you are using Spring or other application frameworks.
Hibernate LazyToOne annotation
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain how the Hibernate LazyToOne annotation works and why you should use NO_PROXY lazy loading with bytecode enhancement. Without the LazyToOneOption.NO_PROXY annotation, the parent-side of a @OneToOne association is always going to be fetched eagerly even if you set it to FetchType.LAZY and enabled bytecode enhancement lazy loading.
Mapping Java Records to JSON columns using Hibernate
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain how we can map Java Records to JSON columns when using Hibernate. Because Hibernate ORM does not offer built-in support for JSON, we are going to use the Hiberate Types library, which allows you to map entity attributes to JSON column types, no matter if you are using Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
The JPA and Hibernate first-level cache
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain how the JPA and Hibernate first-level mechanism works and how it can improve the performance of your data access layer. In JPA terminology, the first-level cache is called Persistence Context, and it’s represented by the EntityManager interface. In Hibernate, the first-level cache is represented by the Session interface, which extends the JPA EntityManager one.
Hibernate Session doWork and doReturningWork methods
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain how the Hibernate Session doWork and doReturningWork methods work, and when you should use them.