Java Persistence with Hibernate

2.4. Integration with Java EE services

We assume that you've already tried the "Hello World" example shown earlier in this chapter and that you're familiar with basic Hibernate configuration and how Hibernate can be integrated with a plain Java application. We'll now discuss more advanced native Hibernate configuration options and how a regular Hibernate application can utilize the Java EE services provided by a Java EE application server.

If you created your first JPA project with Hibernate Annotations and Hibernate EntityManager, the following configuration advice isn't really relevant for you—you're already deep inside Java EE land if you're using JPA, and no extra integration steps are required. Hence, you can skip this section if you use ...