Architecture
Sessionless ORM
How Ebean is architected to be a sessionless ORM
ElasticSearch
Why Ebean has ElasticSearch integration
Persistence Context
An explanation of Ebean's Persistence Context and the various scopes that is supports.
OLTP vs OLAP use cases
How Ebean fits in OLTP vs OLAP use cases, when to use manually supplied SQL
SQL: Covering indexes and only fetching what we need
Optimisations available when we only fetch what we need from the Database
Enhancement
Maven enhancement
Enhancement of entity and query beans using the maven enhancement tile
IntelliJ plugin
Enhancement using the IntelliJ IDEA plugin
Eclipse plugin
Enhancement using the Eclipse plugin
Eclipse APT
Eclipse setup for Query bean generation (via Java annotation processor).
IntelliJ debugger
Looks at Idea debugger setting that invokes lazy loading
DB Migration
DB Migration introduction
Introduction to DB migration
Repeatable migrations
Use of @View, extra-ddl.xml and repeatable migrations
Testing
ebean-mocker
Save capture
Capture save events and assert the beans that were saved and method calls that were invoked.
Find by Id
Provide stub responses to find by id
SQL Capture
Use LoggedSql to capture SQL statements
Static Finder
Provide a test double when using Finders on static fields
Query
Persistence Context
Overview of the persistence context
AutoTune
Automatic query tuning using profiling
Query bean generation
Generate query beans using java annotation processor
Lazy loading beyond the context
Ebean and EclipseLink do it, Hibernate throws LazyInitialisationException
Using query beans
Using query beans and how they work
Generate Finders
Using the codegen maven plugin to generate Finders
FindCount & PagedList
How Ebean's findCount query works and how to use PagedList
Persisting
Persist Cascade
Save cascade statement ordering, reference beans and @OneToMany back references
ElasticSearch
Mapping introduction
Introduction to mapping with @DocCode, @DocSortable & @DocEmbedded
@History / SQL2011
Introduction
Walk through the @History / SQL2011 support with Oracle and Postgres
Comparison to Hibernate Envers
Comparison with the approach taken by Hibernate Envers