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We are looking for your feedback in about Hibernate bootstrap in cloud environments. Check out this article for more details. If you have any idea or proposal, don’t hesitate to use the comments section below the aforementioned article.

Sometimes, it’s easy to miss the basic concepts, and relational databases are no different. Check out this article about how does a relational database work.

Check out how you can build Multi-Release JARs with Maven and Java 9. This is an awesome tip!

We released dedicated Dialects for MariaDB, so you don’t have to use the MySQL-specific Dialects when working with MariaDB.

Integration testing is of paramount importance when building an enterprise application. However, many projects rely on in-memory databases (e.g. H2, HSQLDB) for testing, while in production they use Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MySQL. In this article, you’ll find how you can run integration tests faster using tmpfs and Docker.

Check out this very ingenious solution to discriminator-based Multitenancy suing Hibernate Filters.

If you’re using JCache through Spring, Hibernate, and Ehcache, this article explains how you can prevent spontaneous cache creation.

Concurrency Control is a very tricky subject. Check out this article about how explicit pessimistic locking interacts with INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.

Emmanouil Gkatziouras wrote two articles about Hibernate and Hazelcast as a 2nd-level caching provider:

Russ Thomas wrote https://sqljudo.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/what-every-dba-and-swe-should-know-about-ef/[a comprehensive list of ORM Anti-Patterns. Although the article was written for Entity Framework, the tups apply to JPA or Hibernate.

For our Portuguese readers, Rhuan Henrique Rocha da Silva wrote an article about the meaning of mappedBy in JPA and Hibernate.

Thorben Janssen wrote an article about adding Full-Test Search capabilities to a Hibernate application.

Paul Klingelhuber wrote an article about how the Dirty Checking mechanism interacts with JPA AttributeConverters.

I also wrote an article how to map the latest child of a parent entity using Hibernate @JoinFormula.