Difference between JPA and EBean Play Framework

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xxxo_tryme picture xxxo_tryme · Dec 30, 2013 · Viewed 15.1k times · Source

I'm relatively new to Play framework, I tried following the cookbook but it seems to be already outdated. Anyways I just want to know if there's a big difference between those I have mentioned.

Some tutorials used eBean whilst the others used jpa. I am really confused.

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Leo picture Leo · Dec 30, 2013

same question answered here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/play-framework/6OR1Osf4AAU

JPA is a standard which many libraries implement. Ebean uses parts of the JPA standard. Ebean expects you to annotate your models with JPA annotations. So the question, which is better, Ebean or JPA, is a strange one to answer since Ebean partially is a JPA implementation. I believe Play 2 might also offer a Hibernate integration, which more fully implements the JPA standard, and perhaps is what you were asking about? Hibernate is much more widely used in the Java community. I switched to Ebean when trying Play 2 and haven't looked back. I much prefer it to Hibernate because Hibernate had many tricky gotchas that I was always stumbling over and I haven't found any of these issues with ebean.

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