In the Java Persistence API (JPA) The entities support inheritance, polymorphic, polymorphic associations, and polymorphic queries. Both abstract and concrete classes can be entities, and both of them can be annotated with the @Entity annotation, mapped as entities and queried for as entities. Entities can extend non-entity classes and non-entity classes can extend entity classes, so …
EclipseLink / JPA Annotations – @Inheritance With Single Table Strategy
In the Java Persistence API (JPA) The entities support inheritance, polymorphic, polymorphic associations, and polymorphic queries. Both abstract and concrete classes can be entities, and both of them can be annotated with the @Entity annotation, mapped as entities and queried for as entities. Entities can extend non-entity classes and non-entity classes can extend entity classes, so …
EclipseLink / JPA Annotations – @ManyToMany
The Many-To-Many annotation is one of the most important annotations provided by the EclipseLink – JPA. It defines a many-valued association with ManyToMany multiplicity (See single-valued multiplicity and different kind of many-valued multiplicity). A newly concept has introduced such as (JoinTable) as well as a new annotation like (@JoinTable) when we are coming to introduce …
EclipseLink / JPA Annotations – @OneToMany and @ManyToOne
The OneToMany and ManyToOne annotations are two major JPA annotations that are used for defining two different kinds of associations. The OneToMany annotation define a many-valued association with one-to-many multiplicity, whereas the ManyToOne annotation defines a single-valued association to another entity that has many-to-one multiplicity. The Multiplicity concept seems ambiguous, but it simply tells you the …
EclipseLink / JPA Annotations – @OneToOne
OneToOne annotation is one of the annotations that are used for defining a single-valued association to another entity that has one-to-one multiplicity. The multiplicity concept seems ambiguous but it simply tells you the maximum and minimum allowed members of the set. It is a UML design concept for defining the association relationship, in one-to-one case …
EclipseLink / JPA – com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Unknown column
This post explains the common exception thrown in your eclipselink or JPA program when you miss the @JoinColumn annotation to refer the foreign key value. @JoinColumn is very important, cause it is used to indicate that there is a Joining at the annotated property, where the persistence implementation will take care of and consider the …
EclipseLink – JPA Annotations
Have you ever been standing up close to an article that list most of the annotations that are used by the EclipseLink – JPA API? The EclipseLink provides many annotations covering the persistence into databases. But when we are coming into use of these annotations, we have already faced a big obstacles while remembering those …
EclipseLink – JPA Fields Annotations – @Basic and @Transient
As mentioned earlier, EclipseLink – JPA is a persistence service, provides a mechanism to communicate with a different database vendors. That type of communication has been achieved through what has become known as annotation-based configuration, which is considered as an alternative way for doing a configuration rather than the XML. The XML-based configuration remains one …