What's the difference between Hibernate vs JPA? That's a common question Java developers dabbling on the database side often ask, right up there with difference between Hibernate and JDBC, or how do ...

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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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In this article, an excerpt from Pro EJB 3.0: Java Persistence API (Apress, May 2006), authors Mike Keith and Merrick Schincariol discuss the issues of moving away from container-managed persistence ...