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JPA and Hibernate enum mapping with annotations and the hbm.xml file

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any ...
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Java persistence with JPA and Hibernate: Persisting data to a database

You’ll also get started with JPA Query Language (JPQL) and use it to execute a few simple database operations on the example application. The complete source code for the example application can be ...
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Spring Ehcache integration (Second-level caching in Hibernate)

Integrating Ehcache with Spring-based applications is actually fairly easy. Let's look at this integration with a sample BuddyManagement application. We have a BuddyManagementSample application. The ...
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Inheritance relationships in JPA and Hibernate

Inheritance is a common pattern in object-oriented programming, but it’s not easily replicated in a database. This Java tip shows you how to model inheritance relationships in JPA with Hibernate.