The core idea behind JPA as opposed to JDBC, is that for the most part, JPA lets you avoid the need to “think relationally.” In JPA, you define your persistence rules in the realm of Java code and ...

The key to successful Hibernate transaction management is the JPA EntityManager. It's the only JPA component that can start transactions, commit transactions and hook into Hibernate transactions that ...

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 ...