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 ...

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Software architects face an important technical problem when they must decide how to best interact with backend database systems. The decision often comes down to the Hibernate vs. JDBC debate, as the ...

It’s good to understand the need for object/relational mapping (ORM) in Java applications, but you’re probably eager to see Hibernate in action. We’ll start by showing you a simple example that ...

Every JPA entity has a primary key, but some entities have more than one value as their primary key. In this case, you need to use a composite key. This Java tip introduces you to using composite keys ...