6 engineers on Hacker News describe using JPA first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I had plenty of struggles with the JPA, where some SQLite JDBC wasn't straight up working”
regret · production · super256 · 2022-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I switched the team to Java + JPA, we started writing our own queries if wasn't a simple CRUD and it has been wonderful for the entire team.”
endorse · production · givehimagun · 2019-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to JPA. We implemented JPA with local resource transactions, and it was a mess trying to merge our Frankenstein with JTA transactions”
mixed · production · nevi-me · 2018-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated from JPA to pure JDBC (obviously with abstractions so we can support multiple database implementations”
neutral · production · sgt · 2014-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“caches products in a JPA-accessed MySQL database.”
neutral · production · Eduard · 2013-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“JPA on a back, some basic IoC in the middle (nothing fancy).”
neutral · production · andrewl-hn · 2011-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?