PostgreSQL is a very advanced relational database system. It supports a variety of column types, among which the SQL standard ones are most known. Discover in this article how to map additional types, such as json, hstore, array, inet, range, and enum by using custom Hibernate Types.

Many developers get enthusiastic about JPA in the beginning, only to become skeptical later because „Hibernate is slow” or „JPA barely moves”. This article describes the most frequently encountered problem in JPA, taking JPA 2.1 as a reference point and exemplifying different JPA implementations.

This year, a delegation of six Java engineers from Fortech attended the largest European Spring related conference, Spring I/O, held in Barcelona. The 2-days event included a series of keynotes, presentations and workshops about the Spring Framework. Read here some takeaways from the conference.

This month, Fortech hosts 5 pre-employment training programs opened to students or graduates from the IT field. The programs are designed to combine both theoretical and practical components, in 3,6 or 8 weeks of intensive learning. Join us in exploring the basics of Mobile, .NET, QA or Web technologies.

Peter Lawrey, the well-known Java expert and owner of the popular “Vanilla Java” blog, held an advanced workshop for our Java developers. It was a great experience and an opportunity for our colleagues to stay up to date with the latest development in their area of expertise, thus improving their professional skills.

Ovidiu, a software engineer from Fortech, made an objective overview of Java 8 in the article he published in the 24th issue of the Today Software Magazine. Discover, by reading his impressions, what is new in Java 8 and why the process of managing parallel pools of data is still complex and risky.