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 ...

The goal of JPA was to standardize how Java applications performed ORM. With JPA 1.0, all of the competing implementations were unified because they all now implemented a common, standard API. However ...

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 ...