Author Archives: hedleyproctor

Hibernate Best Practices – Parameterising Criteria Queries

Posted on June 4, 2021 by hedleyproctor

Recently one of our database team pointed out some queries that were not running efficiently. We looked into the queries and they were Hibernate criteria queries. Consider a simple helper method that is creating a predicate for use in a … Continue reading →

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Hibernate internals – how does pagination work?

Posted on May 17, 2021 by hedleyproctor

Hibernate supports pagination for all query types – HQL, Criteria and SQL, via the query setMaxResults() and setFirstResult() methods, but how does this work under the covers? Well, assuming your database supports it, it will add a row_number() to your … Continue reading →

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Memory leak with TestNG and Spring DirtiesContext annotation

Posted on May 15, 2021 by hedleyproctor

We recently added some new integration tests to our test suite. All three tests were Spring integration tests. Normally in a Spring integration test, the entire code for a test method operates in a single transaction, and at the end … Continue reading →

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Jetson Nano and TensorFlow

Posted on December 30, 2020 by hedleyproctor

I got a Jetson Nano for Christmas from my brother-in-law. This is a Single Board Computer (SBC), similar to a Raspberry Pi, but more oriented to machine learning as it has a powerful nVidia GPU on it. Neural networks like … Continue reading →

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Using live templates in IntelliJ

Posted on June 1, 2020 by hedleyproctor

If you need to write repeated text in IntelliJ then you can use its live templating function to help you. Suppose I’m writing a Liquibase script that will be composed of many similar changesets: I want to repeat these inserts, … Continue reading →

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IntelliJ Hints and Tips

Posted on May 26, 2020 by hedleyproctor

Most useful keyboard shortcuts (these are for Mac): CMD + O Open class CMD + SHIFT + OOpen file CMD + F Find in file CMD + R Replace in file CMD + SHIFT + F Find in path CMD … Continue reading →

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Data migration in SQL Server

Posted on January 4, 2019 by hedleyproctor

Recently I’ve had to write a data migration for SQL Server to split a large table (28 million rows) into separate tables. Some notes here on my thoughts… Firstly, SQL Server has INSERT…SELECT syntax which allows you to copy from … Continue reading →

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log4j in maven tests

Posted on November 12, 2018 by hedleyproctor

If you want to specify log4j configuration when running tests via Maven, you can do so by updating the Maven surefire plugin configuration to point to a specific log4j configuration file. For log4j v2 the appropriate parameter is called log4j.configuration. … Continue reading →

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Generating code with JavaPoet

Posted on September 7, 2017 by hedleyproctor

Why write code when you can generate it? There are lots of situations when it makes more sense to generate. In this article I’m going to work through an example of how to use JavaPoet and Apache BeanUtils to write … Continue reading →

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Writing a custom spliterator in Java 8

Posted on June 12, 2017 by hedleyproctor

In this article I’m going to give two examples of writing a custom spliterator in Java 8. What is a spliterator and why would you need to write your own? Well, a spliterator is used by the Java streams code … Continue reading →

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