Blaze Persistence – the best way to write JPA Criteria queries
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain why the Blaze Persistence framework provides the best API to write JPA Criteria queries. Blaze Persistence is a very advanced data access framework maintained by Christian Beikov, who’s also a Hibernate ORM project contributor. I first heard of Blaze Persistence during an interview Christian gave us for the Hibernate forum, and if you are using JPA and Hibernate, you should definitely use Blaze Persistence as well.
Hibernate Physical Naming Strategy
Introduction In this article, I’m going to show you how the Hibernate Physical Naming Strategy works and how you can use it to customize the default mapping between entity attributes and database identifiers.
9 High-Performance Tips when using Oracle with JPA and Hibernate
Introduction In this article, I’m going to show you 9 tips that will help you speed up your Oracle database application when using JPA and Hibernate. To get the most out of the relational database in use, you need to make sure the data access layer resonates with the underlying database system, so, in this article, I’m going to present you several tips that can boost up the performance of your Oracle, JPA and Hibernate applications.
Use Hibernate Dynamic Update for JSON properties
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain why you should always use the Hibernate Dynamic Update feature for entities that map JSON properties. Since Hibernate ORM does not offer support for JSON column types, we are going to use the Hibernate Types library, which provides a JsonType that allows you to map String, Map, List, JsonNode, Java Records, or POJOs on JSON columns, no matter if you are using PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, or H2.
JPA Entity Graph
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain how you can fetch an entity association using a JPA Entity Graph and how you can build it either declaratively or programmatically.
JPA Default Fetch Plan
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain what the JPA Default Fetch Plan is and how it differs from the Query Fetch Plan when using FetchType EAGER associations.
