Imagine you are an expert object-oriented Java developer who meticulously crafts code the way an artist cares for their masterpiece. You believe clean code is an absolute necessity. Classes with clear ...

In Java 101: Inheritance in Java, Part 1, you learned how to leverage inheritance for code reuse, by establishing is-a relationships between classes. Composition is a closely related programming ...

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.