Hibernate suppourt with JPA

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Hi

I am trying to create a my first simple example in JPA .

But to my surprise JPA itself is asking for an option of which ORM tool (I mean Toplink , Hibernate , ---etc)

Please tell me i dont understand this :

What is the purpose of using JPA rather than directly using Hibernate .

[Paul Sturrock]

JPA is a specification. Hibernate is one of a few implementations of that specification.

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Thank you very much Paul , still i am having some queries n this .

But in the examples of JPA , i , dont see Hibernate is not being used anywhere but directly EntityManager methods to perform CRUD operations .

Then please let me know where exactly actually Hibernate is being used in JPA (Because all the things are performed directly by EntityManager ) .

[Vijitha Kumara]

Ravi Kiran V wrote:But in the examples of JPA , i , dont see Hibernate is not being used anywhere but directly EntityManager methods to perform CRUD operations .
Then please let me know where exactly actually Hibernate is being used in JPA (Because all the things are performed directly by EntityManager ) .

EntityManager is the heart of manipulating Entities in JPA. Hibernate provides the implementation through Hibernate Entity Manager

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Thank you Vijitha ,

But i am directly using EntityManager.persist() method .

So my question is where exactly Hibernate is being used ??

[Paul Sturrock]

As Vijitha says, it is being used as a JPA implementation.

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Still i don't understand

There is a JPQL and not also HQL .

so actually where ??

Please provide me any link also would be okay .

[John de Michele]

Ravi:

There is a book titled Java Persistence with Hibernate which you would find useful.

John.

[Paul Sturrock]

But i am directly using EntityManager.persist() method .

So my question is where exactly Hibernate is being used ??

javax.persistence.EntityManager is an interface. Hibernate provides an implemention of that interface.

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Paul thanks for replying .

Ya i know that

For JPA as there is EntityManager for Hibernate there is Session

and Session is also an interface .

[Paul Sturrock]

Indeed. What's your point?

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Means what i think is as in case of JDBC .There is a Driver interface and the different vendors provided their own implementation class .

But EntityManager is a interface and Hibernate Session is also a interface know .

[Vijitha Kumara]

Ravi Kiran V wrote:Means what i think is as in case of JDBC .There is a Driver interface and the different vendors provided their own implementation class .
But EntityManager is a interface and Hibernate Session is also a interface know .

Hibernate is a persistence framework on its own, you can use Hibernate directly for your persistence needs. But JPA (introduced later) is the standardization for the persistence which Hibernate provide an implementation through "Hibernate Entity Manager".

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Thank you for your suppourt

The question what i am asking is

"Can't i use the JPA directly ""?? for providing persistence

[Vijitha Kumara]

Ravi Kiran V wrote:.. Can't i use the JPA directly ""?? for providing persistence

You should understand that JPA is a standardized specification for the persistence. Different vendors (Hibernate being one of them as pointed out earlier) provide implementations you can choose which to use. Of course you don't have to change your code as you are coding to a standardized specification (that is JPA).

[Ravi Kiran Va]

That makes sense .Thank you Vijitha .