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Persisting enums with JPA 2.0 is possible, but there is no nice way to do it. Using the @Enumerated annotation, you can use EnumType.ORDINAL or EnumType.STRING to map the enum value to its database representation. But both options have some drawbacks, that we will discuss in the first part of this article. In the second […]