JPA state of affairs
JPA is a crucial Jakarta EE specification and the most mature data specification for enterprise applications. It provides a standardized and robust approach to ORM in Java, enabling developers to interact seamlessly with relational databases.
When working with the integration between Java applications and relational databases, several aspects need to be taken into consideration, such as the following:
- Configuration management: How the configurations are externalized in order to be easily yet securely changed based on the environment in which it is being deployed (dev, prod, and so on).
- Connection handling: Improper handling of connections with the database may lead to extra processing time, as it is expensive. This need is related to the requirement of managing open, close, and track connections with the database in order to use resources effectively and avoid having too many open and idle connections or not enough connections available to the application...