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Marko Bekhta, the @that_java_guy on Twitter has written a very good series of articles about JPA and Hibernate:

Although JPA is a very mature standard, Hibernate still offers many additions that you could definitely benefit from.

One such example is the @NaturalId annotation which, not only it allows you to map business keys on the entity level, but you can even fetch the entity by its natural identifier without even hitting the database.

Eugen Paraschiv, who runs the well-known Baeldung website, has written two articles about Hibernate:

The Hibernate Validator team has put up a new benchmark to compare the following Bean Validation implementation:

In the true spirit of open-source software development, the JMH benchmarks are available on GitHub, so you can also run them yourself if you want.

For more details about the benchmark and the results we’ve got, check out this article.

If you want to play with Hibernate Validator, there is even a JavaFX example application that you can use to test this framework.

This article shows you a how you can call a PostgreSQL function from JPA.

For more details about how to call stored procedures and functions that can return both scalar (simple basic types) and even REFCURSOR, which allows you to return table data as a ResultSet, then you should definitely read the following articles:

Hibernate Search has been released new versions across three product development branches:

If you’re using Hibernate 5.6, 5.7 or 5.8, then you should check out the new updates.