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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.