There’s nothing worse for a developer than an SQLException in Hibernate and JPA. And there’s nothing more annoying than when the SQLException happens before any of the persistence code even runs. But ...

Hibernate 6.0 has finally been released. Here's what this full increment release means for developers who use JPA for persistence.

Looking back on 2011, I'm struck by two larger trends in the overall database marketplace. First, most energy and excitement (but not much forward motion) seems to be coming from the NoSQL space. And ...