Java Records: How to use them with Hibernate and JPA

A lot of developers complain that Java is too verbose. And I can understand that, especially for all classes that are supposed to be a basic data structure, like entities or DTOs. So, it was no surprise that I got a lot of questions about JDK’s records feature and how you can use it with Hibernate.
In this video, I will show you, how you can use Java records with Hibernate and JPA even though you can’t use them as entities.

Let me immediately answer the 2 most common questions before we get into the details:
Yes, Java records are a great fit for your persistence layer.

But no, you can’t implement an entity using a record.
That’s because of a few important differences between the implementation of a Java record and the requirements of an entity, which I will explain in this video

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[dominikseljan]

Thank you so much Thorben for another useful and informative video! Keep it up

[madsh]

Now the question is, how would you query from two different tables? is it even possible?