JPA: caching queries

Question

I\'m using JPA to load and persist entities in my Java EE-based web application. Hibernate is used as an implementation of JPA, but I don\'t use Hibernate-specific features and

Answer 1

You can't prepare queries that are not named. That is the main reason you should try to have named queries rather than simple queries inside your code. Also, named queries can be cached while simple queries inside your java code cannot. Of course this is an optional feature and is enabled using hints on your named query.