While JPA was originally defined for relational databases, some JPA implementations have been extended for use with NoSQL datastores. EclipseLink, the reference implementation for JPA 3, is a popular ...

JPA-based applications can't connect to a database on their own. Rather, they need help in terms of what credentials to use, which schema to seek, which JDBC driver to select and which annotated ...

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 ...

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 ...