JPA vs. JDBC: Comparing the two DB APIs
Introduction The eternal battle rages on between two warring database factions – JPA, the new hipster ORM on the block, versus the grizzled veteran JDBC. For years, Java developers have debated the merits of these two APIs over one too many double coffees. Is JPA’s object-relational mapping too abstracted and magic? Does JDBC’s bare-metal SQL […]