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 ...

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It's the age-old question that almost all enterprise data architects have to ask themselves at some point in time: When using the Hibernate ORM framework with the Java Persistence API (JPA), should ...

Java Persistence API: A look deeper The Java Persistence API is a lightweight, POJO-based framework for object-relational mapping. The mapping between Java objects and a relational database is ...