Like it or not, data is an integral part of any application, even cool object-oriented ones. Everything stops at the persistence layer, where Java developers traditionally have had to write complex ...

In the perfect world, your object model would map seamlessly to your database schema. Most organizations however, have database naming standards, requirements for how relationships are modeled and ...

I'm a big fan of Hibernate and JPA, and I've worked pretty hard to try and make the technology as accessible and as easy to understand as I possibly can. One of the biggest problems I find people have ...

EclipseLink Project co-lead Doug Clarke presented the session “Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0 with EclipseLink” presentation today at JavaOne 2010. I am a big fan of JPA, but I’m not going to be able ...