Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. During my recent update to TheServerSide’s JDBC definition, I researched commonly queried terms ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.