The core idea behind JPA as opposed to JDBC, is that for the most part, JPA lets you avoid the need to “think relationally.” In JPA, you define your persistence rules in the realm of Java code ...

MySQL JDBC driver for Hibernate and JPA 3. Developers should also be careful that they are no longer referencing the old MySQL JDBC driver. The old com.mysql.jdbc.Driver should not be used anymore.

At a minimum, a Java project that leverages the Java Persistence API needs the following: An underlying JPA 3 implementation such as Hibernate 6.2.2 (Which supports JPA 3.1). JDBC drivers that allows ...