The best way to map the SINGLE_TABLE inheritance with JPA and Hibernate
Introduction Java, like any other object-oriented programming language, makes heavy use of inheritance and polymorphism. Inheritance allows defining class hierarchies that offer different implementations of a common interface. Conceptually, the Domain Model defines both data (e.g. persisted entities) and behavior (business logic). Nevertheless, inheritance is more useful for varying behavior rather than reusing data (composition is much more suitable for sharing structures). Even if the data (persisted entities) and the business logic (transactional services) are decoupled, inheritance can still help varying business logic (e.g. Visitor pattern). In this article, we are going… Read More
How to fix “wrong column type encountered” schema-validation errors with JPA and Hibernate
Introduction Mapping entities to database tables is usually a very straightforward process. However, if your mappings are rather unusual, you might bump into some rare issues like this one I found on the Hibernate forum. In this article, I’m going to explain the mapping between Java objects to JDBC and database column types, and how you can fix the issue described in the aforementioned Hibernate question.
The fastest way to update a table row when using Hibernate and Oracle
Introduction Oracle provides several pseudocolumns, and ROWID is one of them. The ROWID pseudocolumn specifies the address of the underlying database record, and according to Oracle documentation, it’s the fastest way to reference a table row. As explained on Ask TOM, there are some operations that might lead to a ROWID change (e.g. partitioning or compacting tables). If that’s the case, then you should not rely on the ROWID pseudocolumn since its value iss no longer consistent. If your database never executes an operation that triggers a ROWID modification, then you should… Read More
Why you should always use hibernate.connection.provider_disables_autocommit for resource-local JPA transactions
Introduction One of my major goals for Hibernate is to make sure we offer all sorts of performance improvements to reduce transaction response time and increase throughput. In Hibernate 5.2.10, we addressed the HHH-11542 Jira issue which allows you now to delay the database connection acquisition for resource-local transactions as well. In this article, I’m going to explain how Hibernate acquires connections and why you want it to delay this process as long as possible.
Best way to map the JPA and Hibernate ManyToMany relationship
Introduction In this article, I’m going to show you the best way to map a ManyToMany association when using JPA and Hibernate. As simple as JPA annotations might be, it’s not always obvious how efficient they are behind the scenes.
How to install DB2 Express-C on Docker and set up the JDBC connection properties
Introduction While developing Hibernate, I need to test the code base against a plethora of relational database systems: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Informix, and of course DB2. However, having all these databases installed on my system is far from ideal, so I rely a lot on Docker for this task. In this article, I’m going to show how easily you can install DB2 on Docker and set up the JDBC connection so that you can run Hibernate tests on DB2.
The best way to do batch processing with JPA and Hibernate
Introduction Recently, one of my followers asked me to answer a question on Quora about batch processing, and, since the question was really interesting, I decided to turn it into a blog post. In this article, you are going to find out what batch processing is, why do we use it, and how to use it properly with JPA and Hibernate.
How does a JPA Proxy work and how to unproxy it with Hibernate
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain how JPA and Hibernate Proxy objects work, and how you can unproxy an entity Proxy to get access to the underlying POJO instance. The JPA lazy loading mechanism can either be implemented using Proxies or Bytecode Enhancement so that calls to lazy associations can be intercepted and relationships initialized prior to returning the result back to the caller. Initially, in JPA 1.0, it was assumed that Proxies should not be a mandatory requirement, and that’s why @ManyToOne and @OneToOne associations use an EAGER loading… Read More
How to get started with CockroachDB
Introduction CockroachDB is a really interesting database system, getting the best of both RDBMS and NoSQL. It’s been developed by former Google developers, and it’s inspired by Google Spanner. However, unlike Google Spanner, which is offered as a service in Google Cloud, CockroachDB is an open-source database that can be installed on premise. Also, CockroackDB allows you to use the PostgreSQL drivers as opposed to Spanner which only supports the gRPC protocol. So, you can practically reuse all the frameworks that have emerged in the Java ecosystem like connection pools, monitoring proxies… Read More
