Pro JPA 2 in Java EE 8: An In-Depth Guide to Java Persistence APIs

© Mike Keith, Merrick Schincariol, Massimo Nardone 2018

Mike Keith, Merrick Schincariol and Massimo NardonePro JPA 2 in Java EE 8https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3420-4_13

13. XML Mapping Files

Mike Keith¹ , Merrick Schincariol² and Massimo Nardone³

(1)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

(2)

RR 3, RR 3, Almonte, Ontario, Canada

(3)

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 to replicate the information that is inherent ...