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 ...

That’s given JPA a bad reputation among some practitioners. However, it’s not difficult to design an object model for efficient use with JPA; it just takes some research and institutional knowledge.

Hibernate framework is an object/relational mapping library (ORM) for the Java language. It provides a object/relational persistence query service. With hibernate, you can map an object-oriented ...