What's the difference between Hibernate vs JPA? That's a common question Java developers dabbling on the database side often ask, right up there with difference between Hibernate and JDBC, or how do ...

Start by figuring out a design, then proving the design is at least qualitatively superior. While what they've done has issues, the solution to their problem is not likely an ORM.

Software architects face an important technical problem when they must decide how to best interact with backend database systems. The decision often comes down to the Hibernate vs. JDBC debate, as the ...

It gives you the best of both worlds. In this article, I focus on the automated framework approach for ORM in enterprise Java applications. In the next section, I cover several popular ORM frameworks ...

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The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. MicroStream 5.0 has arrived… and, now, the Java persistence framework is open source. MicroStream is a ...

When it comes to tools, Java developers prefer the JUnit testing framework, Jenkins continuous integration server, and Git version control system most of all, a survey of more than 2,000 Java ...