By default, Hibernate maps unidirectional one-to-many associations to a junction table. There is an easy way to use a foreign key column instead.

<p>Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another awesome week in Spring! Can you believe we’re staring down October, 2020 already? I can’t. Time sure flies…. or something. There’s a lot to get to so let’s get to it.</p>
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<p>Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.7.0-M1 and 2.6.3</p>
<p>While the release 2.6.3 has <a href="https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-dataflow/releases/tag/v2.6.3">the bug fixes</a>, the first milestone of 2.7.0…

Learn how to get query results as a Stream with Hibernate 5.2 and how to use them in your application.

Introduction Memoization is a method-level caching technique for speeding-up consecutive invocations. This post will demonstrate how you can achieve request-level repeatable reads for any data source, using Spring AOP only. Spring Caching Spring offers a…

I've been blogging for seven years already. This article reviews the benefits of blogging and how much it has helped me in my career.

Learn about different ways of handling errors using Spring AMQP with RabbitMQ.

Learn about the built-in events for the Spring application context

This article shows how to configure security for Spring Cloud Config Server and create a secure connection with Spring Cloud Config Client.

Learn about Spring's lifecycle annotations PostConstruct and PreDestroy.

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Learn how the SQL ANY operator works when using it with a subquery or a VALUES clause, as well as its NULL handling behavior.

Lazy loading of non-relational attributes in JPA requires provider-specific features. Here is a simple strategy that works with all implementations.

<p>Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of <em>A Bootiful Podcast</em>. In this installment <a href="http://twitter.com/starbuxman">Josh Long (@starbuxman)</a> talks to longtime Spring Framework engineer <a href="http://twitter.com/poutsma">Arjen…

Learn how to use Apache RocketMQ with Spring Boot.

Open Session in View is an Anti-Pattern, and this post is going to demonstrate why it is so.

Learn how to validate domain objects in Spring Boot using Hibernate Validator, the reference implementation of the Bean Validation framework.

Learn how to use arrays in the Thymeleaf template engine.

How to avoid brittle and inflexible tests for the Service Layer of a Spring web app - mock out the interactions with the database, using JUnit, Mockito and Hamcrest.

Implementation of Strategy design pattern in the light of Java 8 features.

Learn about four of the most common design patterns used in the Spring Framework