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In this article, Manika Singh shows 7 mistakes you should avoid when using JPA and Hibernate.

If you want to execute a custom SQL function from a JPQL or Criteria API query, it’s best to register the function so that Hibernate knows how to pass arguments and map the return value. This article explains how you can register an SQL function which can take parameters from the executing Query or reference the underlying table columns via the entity properties in the JPQL query.

This article explains the difference between the JPA standard and the Hibernate framework which implements the Java Persistence specification.

If you’re using PostgreSQL and want to map Java Enums to the PostgreSQL-specific Enum types, this article explains how you can do that without even having to write a new custom Hibernate Type.

For our Portuguese readers, this article explains what the N+1 query issue is and how you can overcome it when using JPA and Hibernate.

The org.hibernate.Hibernate utility class defines an initialize method which takes an entity or a collection proxy and forces the proxy initialization. However, this is only useful if the proxy can be fetched from the second-level cache. If the proxy initialization triggers a database query, then it’s much more efficient to simply fetch the lazy association with the initial database query. For more details, check out this article.

Debezium is an open-source framework which allows you to extract CDC (Change Data Capture) events from the database log and consume them either via an embeddable driver or using Kafka. This article explains how you can use Debezium to detect database changes that happen outside of Hibernate and invalidate the second-level cache entries associated with the recently changed table rows.

Hibernate is a very customizable framework, and because you can override the default CRUD statements, it’s very easy to implement a soft delete mechanism which allows you to retain deleted entities in the database, but to hide them in the application after they were logically deleted. This article shows you got to exclude deleted entities from a given association.

There were two releases for the Hibernate ORM project:

There were two releases for Hibernate Search project as well: