Tag: Hibernate

Java, Equality, Mutability

TL;DR version: Don’t implement equals() on mutable objects.

This is a post I’ve been tossing around for a couple of years, ever since a lunchtime debate with a colleague. It’s a simple statement: You shouldn’t implement the equals() method if your object isn’t immutable.1

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Hibernate Query (Lack Of) Caching

Hibernate has long had a feature known as “query caches” – you can run a query, cache the result, and thus avoid running it repeatedly. The only problem is that it doesn’t do what you think it does.

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ehcache dissected

At work, we are a heavy user of ehcache. Well, we would be… it was initially written at Wotif, to overcome problems with the Jakarta JCS project. I recently had to sit down and figure out exactly how it works, and thought I’d take a moment to write it up.

*Update*: I tested the Hibernate serialization behaviour. See below for more.

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Differences in behaviour between Hibernate delete queries and the old way

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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How the new Hibernate bulk queries work

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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Remember to read the errata!

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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