Category Archives: Hibernate

Mapping a map of simple types in JPA using @ElementCollection

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Robert Piasecki

In the previous post I have shown how to easily map a collection (e.g. Set or List) of simple types in JPA. Today I would like to present how we achieve something similar for Java maps like HashMap or TreeMap. … Continue reading →

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Database schema creation in JPA using SQL scripts

Posted on February 12, 2017 by Robert Piasecki

Recent versions of JPA provide a feature to automatically create the database objects (like tables, sequences or indexes), load initial data into database on application deployment; and also remove them after the application is undeployed. All that is needed is … Continue reading →

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Integrating Hibernate with Spring

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

When building a web application, we will sooner or later need to somehow store data entered by users and retrieve it later. In most cases the best place to keep such data is a database because it additionally provides many … Continue reading →

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