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Are there any differences, pros/cons of using any of the hibernate persistence mechanisms
Native API & hbm.xml files
Annotations
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Envers
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You are mixing your metaphors here
Native API & hbm.xml are used by Hibernate to read and write to a database. They convert objects to a relational tables
Annotations is a way of specifying in a class the various relationships between objects/table. This can be used instead of hbm.xml
JPA is a framework for implementing O-R and the bits around it. You can use JPA with Hibernate.
Envers I dont know much about but I belive is an auditing module within Hibernate
I would recommend keeping things as generic as possible so that if Hibernate does not meet your needs to you can use EclipseLink or something else. If you tie yourself down to hibernate then it will be very hard to move if you have problems (saying that I used hibernate and never had reasons to move.... yet ;) )
I would recommend looking up more details on each of these and them coming back with specific questions
Hibernate Vs JPA Semantics:
We use JPA semantics throughout our projects which is similar to interface based implementation where JPA specification is like interface definition and Hibernate is the provider that implements the specification.
Annotations Vs hbm.xml:
We decided to use annotations instead of specifying the entity definition in XML files to make correlation between domain object and database objects easier and well connected.
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I understand that there are so many ways we can get data from the Db, one is using JPA or Typed/Named Query.
Wish to know on an Enterprise level do we use JpaRepository or custom repository and if custom what exactly do we use to fetch data is it Stream API or Criteria API or something else .
I have tried to use JpaRepository, getById() and also Stream API filter
I have been doing enterprise programming for a long time and the best choice for me was JPA because JPA allows you to avoid writing DML in the database specific dialect of SQL. JPA allows you to load and save Java objects without any DML language at all. When you do need to perform queries JPQL allows you to express the queries in terms of the Java entities rather than the (native) SQL tables and columns.
Also many helpful annotations like #DynamicUpdate and #DynamicInsert help ORM to create more efficient queries.
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I read about the runtime query builder querydsl. But I could not figure out the best cases or examples, where querydsl is most useful. If somebody can explain, it would be really good.
Querydsl helps you to get rid of hard-coded queries and provides a library that encapsulates the functionality of SQL through the hierarchy of corresponding types and interfaces.
It is a better practice to code your queries using interfaces and parametrize the calls.
You will be able to auto-test your changes during the build time using JUnits.
The above makes querying more robust and improves the maintainability of your codebase.
QueryDSL is type-safe queries purely in Java, no strings involved.
repository.findAll(QProduct.product.owner.name.startsWith("Hello"));
So when is it a good idea to use it?
Whenever you need to query from a database that is supported by QueryDSL, of course. Why use SQL when you can use QueryDSL?
If you need to create dynamic database queries, you should use Querydsl.
The pros of using Querydsl are:
It supports dynamic queries.
It has a very clean API. In other words, it is easy to create complex
queries with Querydsl, and the query generation code is easy to read.
It also supports JDO, Lucene, and MongoDB.
The only “problem” of Querydsl is that it isn’t the standard way to create dynamic queries with the Java Persistence API.
Quite fine tutorial with very good explanation you can find here.
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I have used hibernate in my java project where I have used Spring MVC.
I avoided SPRING HIBERNATE because it seemed that it was making my code very tightly coupled. Now, even if I move the app to struts, my service layer would work fine (because I have used the core hibernate , it is not the one that spring provides).
I would like some experienced developer to answer this:
What is the reason of using spring hibernate? I know it provides a number of features but there is a trade off as it really makes your code tightly coupled, you can't re-use the services any where else since they would work based on spring's hibernate api
Spring having 7 different modules each are independent you can use anyone of them or multiple
The core container
Spring context
Spring AOP
Spring DAO
Spring ORM
Spring Web module
Spring MVC framework
you want to know about the ORM integration believe me it doesn't make any tight coupling with your service layer
you can use strut mvc at the same time on service layer spring-orm + hibernate there is no tight coupling, more over spring is providing transaction mgt. hibernatetemplate support, you need not to take care of session and transaction mgt and of course easy integration and configuration.
According to my experience Spring-Hibernate provides:
A template to make 'easy' its configuration
The persistence engine can be used as a dependency, so you can change it whenever you want without modify JPA annotations in your model classes
It's supposed to be much more efficient managing XA transactions
And nothing else ...
well complex question, i could answer it with another question :
What is the reason of using hibernate? I know it provides a number of features but there is a trade off as it really makes your code tightly couple, you can't re-use the services any where else since they would work based on hibernate api.
Why not using direct JDBC and SQL ?
To be more productive on the question : choosing a framework always come with a trade off : being coupled with the framework.
So either the features provided by the framework be worth to pay the trade off or not.
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I am building a web service using the Dropwizard framework (version 0.7.0). It involves executing some read-only queries to the database, manipulating the result set and then returning that data set. I am using MySQL as a database engine. Since I am new to this framework, I want to know which option I should choose: Hibernate or JDBI.
I've used both of these. I've used Hibernate with GORM in Grails as well as in a traditional Spring app and I've used JDBI in Dropwizard.
I have really enjoyed the simplicity of JDBI and here are a couple of reasons why I prefer it over Hibernate.
I know exactly what SQL is going to be executed to acquire the data I'm requesting. With Hibernate, you can sometimes have to do a lot of messing around with HQL and configuring your objects to what you intended to have returned. You ultimately resort to SQL, but then have the difficultly of properly mapping your results back to your domain objects, or you give up and allow hibernate to fetch them one by one.
I don't need to worry about lazy/eager fetching and how that is going to affect my query time on large data sets.
Mappings aren't complicated because you manage them on your own and you don't have to rely on getting the right combinations of annotations and optimizations.
For your case in particular, it sounds like you'd want something lightweight because you don't have a lot of use cases and that would definitely be JDBI over Hibernate in my opinion.
Really, both of these solutions are just "lock-in".
If you want to go with a persisted model type interface, write your code against JPA (if you are sure it's only going to back to a relational database) or JDO (if you might want to back to relational and other-type databases, like the no-SQL movement). This is because with either of these solutions, when problems occur you can switch persistence providers without rewriting the bulk of your code.
If you want to go with a procedural persistence model (dealing with SQL queries directly and such), then go with JDBi or perhaps even JDBC. JDBi provides a very nice abstraction over JDBC; however, there are cases where you want the lower level access (for performance reasons, of the kind were you are tuning the queries and database in concert). Again JDBC is a standard such that you can swap out one database for another with some ease; however, the SQL itself won't be as easy to swap out.
To amend the SQL swap out problems, I recommend using sets of property files to hold the queries, and then a Resource loader type mechanisim to bind the SQL for the right database to the code. It isn't 100% foolproof; but it does get you a bit further.
Now, if you ask me what I'd use, I highly recommend JDO.
if you have very few work upon database then use JDBI else go for Hibernate as it is very strong and provide many additional features to your persistence logic.
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My team is working on a medium size application (OLTP style). We were interested by switching to JPA instead of only using JDBC queries. Mostly for performance and practical reason. I'm not looking for a tutorial that shows me how to create a persistence.xml or Entity class in Eclipse. What i would like to know is what would be the steps to convert all the database queries into the JPA format. I know that the whole application must use JPA.
Many programmers has worked on this project over the years, so not everyone has the same SQL knowledge or the same programming skills. So there must be in this application 1000+ customs queries, using multiple tables (something that native JPA does not support very well), or query that is selecting only a few fields in a table... This is getting a bit out of control and i think that JPA would create a nice toolbox to make sure that everyone is going the same direction.
What should i look for to make sure that i'm not going into a process (convertion) that will never end ? Some sort of guideline.
(Again, i'm not looking for programming exemples, nor Eclipse tutorial.)
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First step is convert you database schema into database model using JPA, you need to be clear what are the table, sequences, database objects that you are using in your existing application and start modeling all the schema with JPA you should consider use JPA annotation.
The step above will determine what will be your entities, embeddables and mapped superclass, their properties and the relationships they have, this step is very crucial as your logic will depends on the correctness of this model.
Then start looking for all the queries that are involved in your project, as you said that you have 1000+ queries consider use two scenario, convert all of them in JPQL queries or use a mix between native queries and named queries, I really prefer to convert all in JPQL unless are very database dependent. A step you must follow is find all of them, probably are some existing tool that convert from SQL to JPQL but I believe is better idea make by your own.
Once you have queries and model for the database start the creation of your new DAO using JPA and EntityManager stuff, I should recommend extract the interface for your exisiting DAO and start moving to a JPA implementation using the same interface, this will avoid break some code on your own, don't forget unit and IT test for your new DAO.
Also with the above approach you could start moving the application module by module, DAO or by DAO does not require to move full application at once. This will give you a kind of process in which you will see some progress each time you finish a new DAO or module.
Not sure what you mean about programming examples, I think those are the required steps but each project is different from each other, so consider this as some kind of guidelines.