How to customize Hibernate dirty checking mechanism

Introduction In my previous article I described the Hibernate automatic dirty checking mechanism. While you should always prefer it, there…

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The anatomy of Hibernate dirty checking

Introduction The persistence context enqueues entity state transitions that get translated to database statements upon flushing. For managed entities, Hibernate…

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The dark side of Hibernate AUTO flush

Introduction Now that I described the the basics of JPA and Hibernate flush strategies, I can continue unraveling the surprising…

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A beginner’s guide to JPA/Hibernate flush strategies

Introduction In my previous post I introduced the entity state transitions Object-relational mapping paradigm. All managed entity state transitions are…

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A beginner’s guide to JPA/Hibernate entity state transitions

Introduction Hibernate shifts the developer mindset from SQL statements to entity state transitions. Once an entity is actively managed by…

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Hibernate hidden gem: the pooled-lo optimizer

Introduction In this post we’ll uncover a sequence identifier generator combining identifier assignment efficiency and interoperability with other external systems…

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From JPA to Hibernate’s legacy and enhanced identifier generators

JPA identifier generators JPA defines the following identifier strategies:                 Strategy Description AUTO…

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Hibernate Identity, Sequence and Table (Sequence) generator

Introduction In my previous post I talked about different database identifier strategies. This post will compare the most common surrogate…

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Hibernate and UUID identifiers

Introduction In my previous post I talked about UUID surrogate keys and the use cases when there are more appropriate…

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