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 ...

JPA-based applications can't connect to a database on their own. Rather, they need help in terms of what credentials to use, which schema to seek, which JDBC driver to select and which annotated ...

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 ...

Inheritance is a common pattern in object-oriented programming, but it’s not easily replicated in a database. This Java tip shows you how to model inheritance relationships in JPA with Hibernate.