JPA Tutorial with Examples using Hibernate in Standalone

This post is the starting point of a JPA introduction tutorial based on operational examples. It relies on a standalone usage of Hibernate. All code examples are available from Github in the JPA directory. Some error messages will be displayed when running some examples because of a known and harmless issue.

The following posts can be read individually or as a sequence:

Basics

• Entity, Embeddable and Authorized Types 
• Primary Keys, Composite and Unique
• EntityManager and Related Concepts Introduction
• Transaction Types and JTA
• @ElementCollection for Embeddables  
• Lifecycle Annotations

Inheritance

• Abstract Entity
• Mapped Super Class
• Non Entity Super Class
• Inheritance Types - Joined, Single Table, Table Per Class

Relationships

• One-To-One Relationships (Unidirectional and Bidirectional) 
• One-To-Many Relationships (Unidirectional and Bidirectional)
• Many-To-One Relationships (Unidirectional and Bidirectional)
• Many-To-Many Relationships 

Criteria API

• Select ... from ... Example

REM: This introduction tutorial does not cover for all features of the persistence package, but is enough to get started and write applications. More posts may be added in the future.