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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any ...

OK, I'm coming up soon on a few small to medium intranet/web site projects where we want to branch out from what we've been using to do object-relational mapping (don't ask; it sucks and you've never ...

The Jakarta Persistence API (JPA) is a specification that defines a standardized framework for data persistence. Persistence is the fundamental mechanism for saving and retrieving data over time. In ...

The Java Architecture for XML Binding provides a powerful and practical way of working with XML content from within Java applications. The newly released JAXB 2.0 offers many new features, including ...