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Learn about Java persistence with JPA and Hibernate. Understand how JPA bridges the gap between relational databases and object-oriented programming. Explore the concept of object-relations impedance mismatch and how ORM tools like Hibernate solve this problem. Discover how to define entities, map fields to columns, specify the primary key, and create different types of entity relationships in JPA. Finally, get an overview of working with the EntityManager in JPA applications.

Java persistence with JPA and Hibernate: Entities and relationships