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 ...

Read the whole series Part 1: Connect your Java applications to databases—the easy way Part 2: Compile, deploy, and access data using your custom-built JDBC driver Part 3: Enhance the custom ...

Topics covered in this class include: effective use of the Java language, annotations, database connectivity (JDBC) and relational mapping, XML processing (JAXB), generics, multithreading, network ...