The Java Persistence API was introduced as part of the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 specification in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE). The Java Persistence API draws on ideas from ...

Alachisoft is shipping an upgrade to its.Net developer tool that the company says offers a nearly 50 percent reduction in application development times. TierDeveloper 5.1 is an object-to-relational ...

A tale of dueling open-source projects for object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by Versant Corp. and Oracle Corp. Versant plans to announce on ...

Fresher Information Corp. has made a number of moves in past months that position it to expand in a specialized segment of the database industry. San Francisco-based Fresher was founded in December ...

A challenge when developing applications that use object-relational mapping (ORM) like Hibernate and JPA, a common approach is to list each @Entity decorated Java class programmatically either in the ...

I urge our readers to have a look at the “Vietnam of Computer Science” by Ted Neward, which compares the quagmire of the Vietnam War to the current quagmire that results from our attempts to blend ...

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 ...