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 ...

I'm a big fan of Hibernate and JPA, and I've worked pretty hard to try and make the technology as accessible and as easy to understand as I possibly can. One of the biggest problems I find people have ...

While JPA was originally defined for relational databases, some JPA implementations have been extended for use with NoSQL datastores. EclipseLink, the reference implementation for JPA 3, is a popular ...