Despite the availability of several other solutions, JPA is almost certainly the most widely used Java database storage specification, so it's familiar to most programmers, which is an advantage when ...

As a part of the Java EE 8 platform, JPA 2.2 includes support for streaming query results, injecting managed beans into attribute converters, repeating annotations, and working with classes in the ...

JPA in Java 8 The Java Persistence API has evolved since this tutorial was published in 2008. Read on for a conceptual introduction to Java data persistence.

JPA and Hibernate enum mapping The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any intervention. The JPA framework, be it Hibernate or Toplink or DataNucleus, will ...

Until the publication of the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 specification and the Java Persistence API, the only persistence technology officially part of the Java Enterprise Edition platform (Java EE ...