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 ...

I'm a big fan of Hibernate and JPA, and I've worked pretty hard to try and make the technology as accessible and as easy to understand as I possibly can. One of the biggest problems I find people have ...

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 ...

EclipseLink Project co-lead Doug Clarke presented the session “Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0 with EclipseLink” presentation today at JavaOne 2010. I am a big fan of JPA, but I’m not going to be able ...