Can someone put in perspective the difference between JPA and Hibernate. Or are these complementary concepts, to be used together?
Can someone put in perspective the difference between JPA and Hibernate. Or are these
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Can someone put in perspective the difference between JPA and Hibernate. Or are these complementary concepts, to be used together?
Roughly, JPA is a standard from the java community, here the specs, which has been implemented (and extended) by the Hibernate guys (some info here). Being a spec, you will not be using JPA directly, but a JPA implementation.
Beware that if you’ll use the hibernate JPAs’ extensions, you’ll break the compatibility with other JPA implementations (though some will say ‘why you should use another JPA implementation?’).