Last week, I wrote about the creative use one can make of Filters by grading assignments of students. About, there’s another recurring issue that warrants a blog post: servlet mappings. While servlet mappings seem easy on the surface, they sometimes can be the cause of huge headaches. The issue In the assignment mentioned above, students have to create a mock e-commerce shop application. The home page shows a title, an introduction phrase, as well as a catchy image.

This is the 3rd post in the Hibernate hard facts focus series. In the third article of this serie, I will show how to tweak Hibernate so as to convert any database data types to and from any Java type so as to decouple your database model from your object model.