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The Insider's Guide to the Java Web Developer Nanodegree - 4

 Another installment of our ongoing in-depth coverage of the new Udacity Nanodegree program that will enhance your career prospects as a Java web developer. At last we get to play in the big league with the Java Persistence API and Hibernate.

Because there's always a confusion around JPA vs Hibernate, the first thing we learn in Data Stores and Persistence is that the Java Persistence API (JPA) is the specification and that Hibernate is an implementer of it; just like in OOP where a concrete class implements an interface.

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