Pro Jakarta Persistence in Jakarta EE 10: An In-Depth Guide to Persistence in Enterprise Java Development

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13. XML Mapping Files

Lukas Jungmann¹  , Mike Keith², Merrick Schincariol³ and Massimo Nardone⁴

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Prague, Czech Republic

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Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Almonte, ON, Canada

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HELSINKI, Finland

 

Back in the early days, after the release of Java SE 5, there was a quiet, and sometimes not-so-quiet, debate about whether annotations were better or worse than XML. The defenders of annotations vigorously proclaimed how annotations are so much simpler and provide in-lined metadata that is co-located with the code that it is describing. The claim was that this avoids the need ...