Hibernate and JPA compared. During my recent update to TheServerSide’s JDBC definition, I researched commonly queried terms related to the database API and was surprised by just how many people are ...

As noted above, JPA is not the only way to persist data in a Java application. Because Java has several implementations of the JPA specification, however, the main advantage of specification is that ...

JPA is all about data persistence, so let’s begin our examination of how it works with the data store design. Assume you have a CUSTOMER table, as in Table 1 below. Table 1.