JPA

Simple CRUD Example – Part 2

In the last article I showed you how to create a Debry database and set up a persistence unit. In this article I’ll create a very basic CRUD application. Using JSF 2, JPA 2 and EJB 3.1.

JPA2 Serialized Blob Never Really Null

This one got me late on a Friday (actually after work so I was doubly frustrated) and is to do with how JPA2 persists attributes of items that are not of basic Java types and which are also not entities. In order words attributes that implement Serializable and get shoved into BLOB fields.

JPA 2 Eager Fetching on a Collection

Quick little JPA 2 issue that I faced today that I’m sure many other people have run into especially when starting out. The problem was and error message such as the one shown below when attempting to display the contents of a Set of other entities in a JSF page