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One of the main goals of JPA was that it should be simple to use and easy to understand. Although its problem domain cannot be trivialized or watered down, the technology that enables developers to deal with it can be straightforward and intuitive. In this chapter, we will show how effortless it can be to develop and use entities.
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Peter P. Chen, “The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data,” ACM Transactions on Database Systems 1, no. 1 (1976): 9–36.
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In most cases, this is a requirement, but in certain configurations the transaction might not be started until after the operation.
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Annotations on setter methods will just be ignored.
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Keith, M., Schincariol, M. (2013). Getting Started. In: Pro JPA 2. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4927-6_2
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