Automatically map JSONB column to entity attribute with Hibernate Types | JPA Buddy

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There is no out-of-the-box way to map a PostgreSQL JSONB type to an attribute in Hibernate. But there is a solution — use the Hibernate Types library!
If you have it in your project, JPABuddy finds appropriate types and suggests them automatically during reverse engineering.

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