Java annotations are the key behind EJB 3.0, which ties POJO services, POJO persistence, and dependency injection altogether into a complete enterprise middleware solution.

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JPA and Hibernate enum mapping The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any intervention. The JPA framework, be it Hibernate or Toplink or DataNucleus, will ...