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Hibernate Community Newsletter 21/2018

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Welcome to the Hibernate community newsletter in which we share blog posts, forum, and StackOverflow questions that are especially relevant to our users.

Market share

According to the 2018 JVM ecosystem report published by Snyk, Hibernate has a 54% market share, making it the most popular Java data access technology.

Although it’s been available since 2001, Hibernate has been evolving constantly, and the Hibernate ORM version 6 is going to bring many new features and improvements, so stay tuned!

Articles

JPA 2.2 supports the following java.time types introduced by Java 8:

  • java.time.LocalDate

  • java.time.LocalTime

  • java.time.LocalDateTime

  • java.time.OffsetTime

  • java.time.OffsetDateTime

Apart from supporting all those types, Hibernate provides the following extra types:

  • java.time.Duration

  • java.time.Instant

  • java.time.ZonedDateTime

However, neither JPA nor Hibernate support the java.time.Year and java.time.YearMonth out-of-the-box. The following two articles show you how to support these types when using JPA and Hibernate:

Eugen Paraschiv wrote two articles about Hibernate:

Time to upgrade

Hibernate ORM 5.3.7 has been released. For more details about this version, check out the release notes.

Questions and answers

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