JPA is the Java standard for data persistence, especially for relational systems. Here, we explore how Hibernate and JPA work together to make database processes easier.

Get started modeling entities and relationships for Java data persistence, using an example application based on Java 21 with Hibernate 6.3.

Write, build, and run an example application that persists data to and from a relational database using Hibernate, JPA, and the repository pattern.

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 ...