Lately I've had to program an application that accesses an old Solid database that we use for “hysterical raisins” (as my co-worker on the project calls it), and found that our preferred JPA implementation Hibernate needed a little nudge to let you use it properly. This article explains the tricks to get you started.

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• Java
• JPA
• j2ee
• hibernate
• Solid

In this article I describe a recent problem I had with PostgreSQL, where a deadlock caused my application to crash for unclear reasons. Naturally I also describe how to debug such problems and the reason for the deadlock.

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• Java
• JPA
• PostgreSQL