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Modularizing the Hibernate SessionFactory with the Spring framework

In this article, we describe our modularization and transaction management approach with Spring and Hibernate. Similar to the OSGi JPA Service Specification and JDBC, it allows each persistent module ...
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How JPA EntityManager handles Hibernate transaction management

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 ...
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Java persistence with JPA and Hibernate: Persisting data to a database

You’ll also get started with JPA Query Language (JPQL) and use it to execute a few simple database operations on the example application. The complete source code for the example application can be ...
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Inheritance relationships in JPA and Hibernate

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.