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Java persistence with JPA and Hibernate: Entities and relationships

The Jakarta Persistence API (JPA) is a Java specification that bridges the gap between relational databases and object-oriented programming. This two-part tutorial introduces JPA and explains how Java ...
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3 ways to have JPA and Hibernate create tables in a database

Test-driven software must often drop, create and populate database tables with records before it runs a suite of unit tests. For this reason, the ability to have JPA frameworks -- such as EclipseLink ...
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Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA and MySQL

Spring Boot is the most popular Java framework for building cloud-native applications, and Hibernate is the most popular object-relational mapping framework for implementing the JPA spec. This Spring ...
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Composite keys in JPA and Hibernate

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 ...