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 ...

Software architects face an important technical problem when they must decide how to best interact with backend database systems. The decision often comes down to the Hibernate vs. JDBC debate, as the ...

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.

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In Part 2, I discuss how EJB 3.0 entity beans leverage POJO and annotations to greatly simplify your data model and its persistence-to-backend relational databases. Before we get into the details of ...