TheServerSide

Create a distraction free JPA and Hibernate dev environment

To quickly learn and understand Java Persistence API development, the best option is to eschew all the peripheral technologies and put together a minimalistic JPA and Hibernate development environment ...
TheServerSide

JPA and Hibernate enum mapping with annotations and the hbm.xml file

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any ...
InfoWorld

Understanding JPA, Part 1: The object-oriented paradigm of data persistence

Like it or not, data is an integral part of any application, even cool object-oriented ones. Everything stops at the persistence layer, where Java developers traditionally have had to write complex ...
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Java persistence with JPA and Hibernate: Persisting data to a database

You’ll also get started with JPA Query Language (JPQL) and use it to execute a few simple database operations on the example application. The complete source code for the example application can be ...