How to use Hibernate to generate a DDL script from your Play! Framework project

Ok, so you have been using the hiber­nate prop­erty name=“hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto” value=“update” to con­tin­u­ously update your data­base schema, but now you…

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Hibernate bytecode enhancement

Introduction Now that you know the basics of Hibernate dirty checking, we can dig into enhanced dirty checking mechanisms. While…

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JPA Hibernate Alternatives. What can I use if JPA or Hibernate is not good enough for my project?

Hello, how are you? Today we will talk about situations that the use of the JPA/Hibernate is not recommended. Which…

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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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Upgrading Spring 3.x and Hibernate 3.x to Spring Platform 1.0.1 (Spring + hibernate 4.x)

I recent volunteered to upgrade our newest project to the latest version of Spring Platform. What Spring Platform gives you…

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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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Hibernate Statistics with Hawtio and Jolokia

A huge part of enterprise Java deals with data. Among all the different ways of working with data in enterprise…

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