Adapting and Learning

I've been updating some training materials recently, and thinking about better ways of teaching and talking about JPA. One of the things...

I was recently surprised by how one code base had public default constructors (i.e. zero-arguments constructors) in all their domain entiti...

In one design patterns class, I had an interesting discussion about modelling domain logic. Specifically, it was about isolating the domain ...

As I was discussing the PoEAA patterns used to model domain logic (i.e. transaction script, table module, domain model), I noticed that peo...

In older versions of Hibernate, I can see the one-shot delete indicated in the manual. But newer versions no longer have this section. I...

In a previous post , I mentioned that I opted to reference other aggregates by their primary key, and not by type. I usually use this appro...

From my experience, both in helping teams and conducting training, here are some pitfalls/mistakes I have encountered that caused some probl...

Here's a quick short post. Putting it here, since it has been tremendously useful for me. I hope this will help others as well. There ...

In the first part of the series , I showed how transactions work in plain-vanilla JDBC . And then I showed how Spring manages JDBC-based tra...

I've been meaning to write about this for quite some time now. In the training courses I've been privileged to conduct, I've no...