I don't mind using JDBC directly in many of the Java applications I work with, especially when using it in conjunction with Spring's JDBC support or with a simple SQL mapping framework like ...

The Sql.newInstance method is has several overloaded versions and the version accepting a JDBC connection URL, username String, password String, and JDBC driver String is the version used in this ...

JPA 3 and Hibernate persistence.xml file As developers migrate their old Java Persistence API applications to JPA 3, their progress is often halted when an incorrectly configured JPA 3 persistence.xml ...

There’s nothing worse for a developer than an SQLException in Hibernate and JPA. And there’s nothing more annoying than when the SQLException happens before any of the persistence code even runs. But ...