ClickOnChris

Whenever I need need help configuring JPA annotations I turn to google, and I always find it difficult to find a good cheatsheet.

Well here is my favorite JPA annotation cheatsheet.  Even though it says Oracle and Toplink it applies to any Spring/JPA/Hibernate technology stack:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/toplink-jpa-annotations-096251.html

Oh yeah, and here’s my tip on using cascades: Never use CascadeType.ALL!  Use MERGE, PERSIST, and maybe REMOVE if you want to cascade your deletes.  CascadeType.ALL will result in poor performance and unintended consequences.