Which documentation you recommend for JPA and other playframework ecosystem

Question

What documentation (books or online resources) you would recommend for a JPA newbie, which want to program with the play framework? In play you only use annotations and hibernate as JPA implementation, so it would be useful if there would be the focus on.

I started with wiki-book, but not sure if it is the best solution.

A book for groovy template engine would be nice too.

Thanks for your hints.

Niels

Answer 1

I found the hibernate documentation quite useful for learning JPA. http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.6/reference/en-US/html/

This might be a good place to start. http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.6/quickstart/en-US/html/hibernate-gsg-tutorial-annotations.html

Answer 2

The JPA wikibook is a good resource to use as reference, but maybe not to learn JPA.

For a (very light) introduction, you could maybe start with the JPA tutorial from the brand new Hibernate Getting Started Guide:

• Chapter 4. Tutorial Using the Java Persistence API (JPA)

To go further, the following books are definitely good ones:

• Java Persistence with Hibernate (the Hibernate Bible, covers also JPA)
• Pro JPA 2: Mastering the Java™ Persistence API