Figure 1. Domain model for a JPA/Hibernate application with two entities. When we talk about database tables, we typically speak about a “data model,” but when we talk about Java entities and ...

Hibernate was first released in 2001, back when data persistence architectures in Java applications were not as universally defined as they became when JPA came along several years later. However, ...

Many Web applications ... non-intrusive ORM solution, Hibernate provides object query APIs for plain old Java object (POJO) persistence model classes and automatic data bindings between the ...

The decision often comes down to the Hibernate ... between a Java application and the backend database might incur a performance hit, but this concern is largely unfounded. For the most part, a JPA ...