In Hibernate 2, you could sort-of do a bulk delete via the Session interface. In Hibernate 3, they have true bulk deletes, ala Section 3.11 of the EJB 3 Persistence API. However, they have some significant differences which people migrating to the new functionality need to be aware of.
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I finally got a chance to try out upgrading to Hibernate 3 at work. It wasn’t the smoothest of rides, but I got there in the end.
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When I gave my talk on Monday I’d sort of hurried over the new bulk queries in Hibernate, largely because I didn’t have much luck finding doco on them.
Now I know how they work.
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Somehow I missed this new feature in Hibernate 3.0
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Elizabeth Keogh has been writing a couple of articles on naming of interfaces. In the process, she’s highlighted a more important issue: granularity of types.
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I gave a talk at the AJUG-QLD tonight on the new features of Hibernate 3.0.
Here are the slides
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I’d introduced a Hibernate user type into the code base a few days ago. I’d based it on an example in the (more or less) wonderful book Hibernate in Action Naturally, however, I’d copied the example with a bug in it!
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There’s a couple of posts going around about another post comparing Ta-Da with Bla-Bla Look, folks, this isn’t comparing the two languages: this is comparing different coding styles, that strangely enough value different things!
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I really, really, shouldn’t bite, but… Cedric is asking about dependent test methods and if they are evil Well, they may not be evil, but they are at least mildly naughty.
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If you use Checkstyle, especially as part of an automated build you may notice that the size of the log file can be a bit big.
I did, anyway, so I wrote a stylesheet to trim it down to size.
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