This week's Java roundup for May 19th, 2025, features news highlighting: Java’s 30th birthday; the release of Hibernate ORM 7 ...

Hibernate is just one of many JPA tools. Developed by Gavin King and first released in early 2002, Hibernate is an ORM library for Java. King developed Hibernate as an alternative to entity beans ...

The Java Persistence API is a specification, not an implementation: it defines a common abstraction that you can use in your code to interact with ORM products. This section reviews some of the ...

It's the age-old question that almost all enterprise data architects have to ask themselves at some point in time: When using the Hibernate ORM framework with the Java Persistence API (JPA), should ...

A challenge when developing applications that use object-relational mapping (ORM) like Hibernate and JPA, a common approach is to list each @Entity decorated Java class programmatically either in the ...