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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Just how hard is it to perform a JPA or Hibernate enum mapping with either annotations or a ...

It’s good to understand the need for object/relational mapping (ORM) in Java applications, but you’re probably eager to see Hibernate in action. We’ll start by showing you a simple example that ...

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 ...