8 Migrating from Hibernate to EclipseLink

This chapter describes how to migrate applications from using Hibernate JPA annotations and its native and proprietary API to using EclipseLink's JPA implementation, provided by EclipseLink. The migration involves converting Hibernate annotations to EclipseLink annotations, and converting native Hibernate API to EclipseLink JPA in the application code. Standard JPA annotations and API are left unchanged.

This chapter describes how to migrate applications from using Hibernate JPA annotations and its native and proprietary API to using EclipseLink JPA. The migration involves converting Hibernate annotations to EclipseLink annotations, and converting native Hibernate API to EclipseLink JPA in the application code. Standard JPA annotations and API are left unchanged.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Introduction to the Solution

• Main Tasks

• Additional Resources

Use Case

A developer wants to migrate applications using Hibernate as the persistence provider to use EclipseLink instead.

Solution

Follow the instructions in this chapter to upgrade the application.

Components

• EclipseLink 2.4 or later.