I'm relatively new to kotlin and we want to introduce it to our (big) Java/Spring application. I was...

# server

[Arian Stolwijk]

I'm relatively new to kotlin and we want to introduce it to our (big) Java/Spring application. I was wondering if kotlin-jpa is the way to go when working with hibernate? It makes it easier to define @Entity classes as data-classes, but is that the best way 🤔

[ienoobong]

#spring + don’t use data classes for entities because JPA doesn’t work well with the generated equals/hashCode functions.

https://kotlinexpertise.com/hibernate-with-kotlin-spring-boot/

[Arian Stolwijk]

Thanks for the link 👍

[sdeleuze]

You can see also guidelines in the official tuto https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/spring-boot-kotlin/