The JPA EntityManager is the key to Hibernate transaction management. Here's how to bring and commit transactions and persist data to the database for smooth, reliable transactions.

We will only compile JPA code in this example to validate the local Hibernate and Java configuration. Create a JPA annotated entity A big part of JPA and Hibernate development is for the developer to ...

Java persistence with Spring Data Want to keep going? Watch for the next tutorial in the Java persistence series, introducing Spring Data as an alternative to Hibernate for JPA.

Databases have no notion of inheritance between entities, so JPA providers like Hibernate must provide special features for defining object-oriented inheritance relationships in the database.

Hey all -- I'm trying to assemble some stuff into a web-app using JSP and JPA/Hibernate. My problem lies with object identity in the database and in the JVM. I've looked at several tutorials and ...