Far too many developers are under the impression that the business entities that Entity Framework (EF) creates in database-first mode are the business entities you're stuck with: one entity = one ...

Inheritance mapping and support for polymorphic queries was a crucial feature missing in the traditional EJB 2.1 Entity Beans model. Hibernate, an Open Source object-relational mapping and persistence ...

Like it or not, data is an integral part of any application, even cool object-oriented ones. Everything stops at the persistence layer, where Java developers traditionally have had to write complex ...

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.

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