Get full access to Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Creating the Course entity

Let's now create the Course entity. Right-click on the project and select the JPA Tools | Generate Tables from Entities menu:

Figure 8.8: Generate course entity

Make sure that CourseMgmtDBConnection is selected (refer to the Configuring JPA section of Chapter 7, Creating JEE Applications with EJB, for configuring a MySQL database connection in Eclipse) and that List generated classes in persistence.xml is selected. Click Next on this and the next page. On the Customize Defaults page, select identity as the Key generator and set the package name as packt.jee.course_management_jpa.entity:

Figure 8.9: Customize JPA ...

Get Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now