Meet Jos Roseboom
JavaZone 2026 At the beginning of September, I participated in JavaZone for the third time and had the privilege of meeting a lot of passionate software developers willing to share their knowledge with the community. In the first conference day, I attended a very good talk about JPA performance tuning that was delivered by Jos Roseboom and since I enjoyed his talk, I proposed him to gave an interview for this blog. Therefore, in this article we have the pleasure of getting to know Jos and take opportunity of learning about Spring… Read More
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.
JTA Transaction Type
Introduction In this article, we are going to analyze how the JTA transaction type works. Since this is the default transaction type when using Jakarta EE or Java EE applications, it’s very important to understand how JTA transactions work, especially since Spring Boot or Spring applications use RESOURCE_LOCAL transactions instead.
RESOURCE_LOCAL JPA Transaction Type
Introduction In this article, we are going to analyze how the RESOURCE_LOCAL JPA transaction type works. Since this is the default transaction type when using Spring Boot or Spring Data JPA, it’s very important to understand how transactions are managed when using the RESOURCE_LOCAL mode.
