We are happy to announce the final release of the 1.6 series. This release mainly fixes bugs and adds a few optimizations.

Some users were still using the 1.5 series although the 1.6 Alpha releases were already considered stable. To avoid confusion about the stability of releases, we will try to avoid using the Alpha label in the future.

Take a look into the changelog for a full list of changes and improvements.

Enjoy the release and stay tuned for the next one!

We are happy to announce the second alpha release of the 1.6 series. We introduced a few new features and fixed quite a few bugs.

A big thank you goes out to Dane Lowe for implementing the conversion support from entities to entity views. I’d also like to thank Ritesh and slyoldfox for investigating and fixing issues they faced.

Most of the enhancements delivered in this release improve the performance of a few types of queries. The support for GROUPING SETS is user facing which allows creating summarizations of aggregated data. For more information about grouping sets, take a look into the documentation.

This version now also adds support for ..

We are happy to announce the first alpha release of the 1.6 series. We introduced two very interesting features that I would like to highlight. The first is the support for specifying collection behavior for a multi-collection via the new @MultiCollectionMapping annotation which can be used to configure a comparator or ordering for the collection within the indexed collection/map. The next notable feature is the support for secondary entity view roots which can be imagined like correlations on steroids.

Since we ..

Here comes the first fix release for 1.5 containing a fix for our Hibernate 5.4 integration. Hibernate 5.4.19.Final introduced a change that broke our integration and since Quarkus updates the Hibernate version pretty quickly, we decided to publish a public 1.5 release containing this fix.

The last big feature for the 1.5 series, the support for custom index/key mapping expressions for List and Map entity view attributes, was finally finished, which lead to this wonderful release today!

This release is pretty big, containing many bug fixes and quite a few great features. The most notable features are JSON functions to access/manipulate fields of JSON columns, the support for joins in DML statements and the support for ..

We recently switched from using JDK 9 to JDK 14 for our releases and accidentally compiled MR-JAR contents with the Java 14 classfile version. This release fixes that, so that you can run Blaze-Persistence again with all Java versions from 9 to 13. We also fixed a query plan caching bug for DML queries that are using the RETURNING clause along with ..

Unfortunately, our Quarkus testsuite didn’t work as expected within the Quarkus Ecosystem CI so we had to do two more release to be able to get into the Quarkus catalog. The nice thing about another release shortly after the previous one is, that we also squeezed a few bug fixes and features into this release.

We added support for Spring HATEOAS and also Spring Boot 2.3 as well as Spring Data 2.3. In an upcoming blog post you will hear more about another new feature, the support for custom ..

Wow, what a big release! There is so much good stuff in 1.5.0-Alpha2, you definitely should update, also because of some important bug fixes! Our biggest newcomers are the Querydsl integration and Quarkus integration with support for native compilation when using our brand new annotation processor, which generates entity view implementations during compilation. It also generates static metamodels and builder implementations and is useful also for non-Quarkus projects, but more on that in a blog post. Please consider updating soon to avoid running into a concurrency issue ..

We are happy to announce the first alpha release of the 1.5 series. We introduced a few very interesting features like MULTISET fetching for entity views, support for predicates in array expressions and array expression with entity literals as basis. Apart from the new features, we also fixed quite a few bugs and improved performance. Most notable are bug fixes in updatable entity views. There were problems in the dirty tracking of indexed collections(List, Map) when clearing and re-adding elements. Using @PreUpdate entity view lifecycle listeners could also lead to various issues like missed updates. Version 1.5.0-Alpha1 should be a drop-in replacement for earlier versions and we highly recommend ..

Here comes the first fix release for 1.4 containing quite a few new features but also a pretty important packaging fix. Due to build system updates, the META-INF/versions/9 directory in the entity view implementation JAR got lost. The directory in the JAR is vital for running on Java 11+ as it contains an alternative implementation for defining classes that was introduced in Java 9. The highlight of the release is the support for subqueries in the FROM clause and the ..

We made a cut for the 1.4 series and decided to do the final 1.4.0 release containing mostly bug fixes on top of 1.4.0-Alpha4! The development for 1.4 started in early 2019 and since we received comments, that it appears the 1.3 series is the current stable version, we wanted to make it clear that 1.4 is stable enough. We will most likely deliver a few smaller features in 1.4.x releases, but at some point ..

Better late than never. Here comes your late christmas present, Blaze-Persistence version 1.4.0-Alpha4! Enjoy Entity View lifecycle listeners, an integration for Jackson deserialization of Entity Views that is built into the Spring WebMvc and JAX-RS integrations automatically. This release also comes with a Spring WebFlux integration and the biggest newcomer is the GraphQL ..

We just released Blaze-Persistence version 1.4.0-Alpha3 containing quite a few bug fixes as well as a few new features! We support the newest Spring Boot and Spring Data version 2.2 and now also have support for FULL JOIN which is supported by Hibernate. Entity Views equality is now based on the entity inheritance top type and we now also provide a default implementation for toString(). We made a few Entity View annotations ..

We just released Blaze-Persistence version 1.4.0-Alpha2, this time, mostly with new features! The most exciting feature of this release is obviously window function support and the new expression syntax support for it.

If you want to get the number of objects while fetching them and avoid the need for grouping or subqueries, you can now do something like

We added support for the most common window functions, also see ..

We just released Blaze-Persistence version 1.4.0-Alpha1, again with a lot of bug fixes especially in the Spring Data integration. Don’t be scared about the Alpha bit. By using an Alpha qualifier, we just want to show that new APIs are not final yet, although in this case, the newly introduces APIs are. It’s completely backwards compatible and as always, we advise you to update quickly to avoid getting bitten by the bugs ;)

The most notable bug fixes are:

We just released Blaze-Persistence version 1.3.2, again with a lot of bug fixes especially in the DeltaSpike Data integration. It’s completely backwards compatible and as always, we advise you to update quickly to avoid getting bitten by the bugs ;)

The most notable bug fixes are:

Here comes Blaze-Persistence version 1.3.1 with a lot of bug fixes especially for updatable entity views. It’s completely backwards compatible and we advise you to update quickly to avoid getting bitten by the bugs ;)

The most notable bug fixes are:

I’m proud to announce that Blaze-Persistence version 1.3.0 is finally done!

It took so much longer than initially planned, mostly because of the great feedback we received that we simply deemed to be too important to be deferred. We felt that 1.3.0 would only be a partial solution without these fixes and features, so we decided to get those features in before releasing.

The most notable features and bug fixes are:

I will be speaking at the Java Vienna JUG meetup taking place at the Vienna University of Technology on the 3rd of December 2018. The exact location will be published on the meetup page and the talk will start at around 18:25.

The title of the presentation is Entity Views - Not your father’s DTOs and it will be about all the benefits that come with using Entity Views. In the talk I will explain the basic concepts, show some features and present use cases. You can expect a little comparison with other DTO solutions and ..

Blaze-Persistence version 1.3.0-Alpha3 adds many new features and fixes quite a few issues!

Originally, we didn’t even plan to push out another Alpha release, but we added so many new features and fixed quite a few annoying bugs, that we decided to push out another version instead of letting you wait for the final release.

Unfortunately we had to do some backwards-incompatible changes to the jpa-criteria module as we wrongly made JPA CriteriaQuery dependent on an EntityManager which prevented caching. The only difference is that the EntityManager will now have to be passed to a createCriteriaBuilder method that was added to the JPA extension interface BlazeCriteriaQuery instead of passing it during query creation via the BlazeCriteria utility class.

To support varying page sizes and thus also offsets that aren’t calculatable based on the page and pageSize, we introduced new constructors for KeysetPageRequest and changed the semantics of existing ones in the Spring Data and DeltaSpike Data modules. If you constructed KeysetPageRequest manually, please review if the constructor that you use fits your needs. Since the DeltaSpike Data integration brings it’s own PageRequest API, you are also affected of this change when you construct a PageRequest with the DeltaSpike Data integration.

The most notable features and bug fixes are:

Blaze-Persistence version 1.3.0-Alpha2 adds a few new features but mainly has focused on bug fixes!

The main features are the support for the new EMBEDDING_VIEW function in entity views, that finally allows to refer to the entity relation of a view that embeds a SubqueryProvider or CorrelationProvider, but also in case of simple subviews. Giovanni Lovato did his first PR and added support for passing entity view optional parameters to spring data repository methods via @OptionalParam, thank you for that!

A few other notable changes and fixes

Here comes version 1.2.1 containing a lot of fixes and 1.3.0-Alpha1 containing new API methods that allow to make use of Hibernate Envers entities with Blaze-Persistence!

Thanks for all the testing and issue reports to Giovanni Lovato who helped a lot with getting Blaze-Persistence to work properly with Hibernate Envers! A big thank you also goes out to Jan-Willem Gmelig Meyling who worked on the support for natural ids and a few other issues! When he finishes working on a the join avoidance optimization for natural ids in Hibernate we are going ..

We did it! Version 1.2.0 is finally released!

It took a while to get everything right, but now we finally support Java 9 & 10. Updatable entity views now support orphan deletion, the PaginatedCriteriaBuilder API allows to omit the count query and we fixed a few bugs that our ever growing user base reported. I’d like to thank everyone contributing to this excellent release and personally thank Mahesh for helping me polish the Spring Data integration. He reported quite a few bugs and gave a lot of feedback based on his experience of integrating Blaze-Persistence into his project.

As always, we recommend you to update to the latest version especially since we fixed a few bugs that might bite you unexpectedly, like

Thanks for the throughout analysis on this Jan-Willem Gmelig Meyling! ..

Weren’t expecting a new release so fast? Me neither, but as it turns out, the Spring Data and DeltaSpike Data integrations didn’t work quite as expected in real projects, only in our example projects. Our integration essentially replaces the repository implementation of Spring Data and DeltaSpike Data respectively. The implementation unfortunately was lacking the write related methods though, so this lead to startup errors when you were extending from the usual interfaces.

The bug fix for this problem

was done quite fast as the underlying problem was merely an oversight.

We promised you more frequent releases, and here they are! Although we said that this will be the last Alpha release for 1.2.0, we decided that we need another round since we couldn’t get everything done yet for which we already had an API. One of our main concerns was Java 9 compatibility related to split packages. So we moved a few things around and gave all modules proper Automatic-Module-Name manifest entries. We also spent quite some time on supporting REST technologies and providing examples which, but it was worth it! Overall, we have quite a few nice features for you

It has been too long since the last official release, almost a year! But don’t think we didn’t do anything in this time! Many new and shiny features are part of this release.

This release which should already be available on Maven Central includes some very hot features

This release includes some very hot features

This release includes some very hot features

This release includes some bugfixes for the core module

This will probably be the last release for the 1.1 branch as 1.2 is approaching the first Alpha release which is quite stable from a user perspective. We recommend updating to 1.2.0-Alpha1 directly.