The key to successful Hibernate transaction management is the JPA EntityManager. It's the only JPA component that can start transactions, commit transactions and hook into Hibernate transactions that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every JPA entity has a primary key, but some entities have more than one value as their primary key. In this case, you need to use a composite key. This Java tip introduces you to using composite keys ...