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However, if you want to customize the way a field maps to a database column, you can decorate a property with the @Column annotation. Along with the name property, the JPA @Column annotation can ...

For a Java developer, Hibernate 3 annotations offer a terrific way to model the domain layer. Without much effort, you can get Hibernate to generate your database schema automatically, dispensing ...