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Many Web applications exist to provide access to copious amounts of data stored in a relational database, but what’s the easiest way to enable users to search through that data and find what they need ...

Integrating Ehcache with Spring-based applications is actually fairly easy. Let's look at this integration with a sample BuddyManagement application. We have a BuddyManagementSample application. The ...

Inheritance is a common pattern in object-oriented programming, but it’s not easily replicated in a database. This Java tip shows you how to model inheritance relationships in JPA with Hibernate.