Saving order of a List in JPA

Question

I have the following question about JPA:

Can I save the order of the elements in a java.util.List? In my application the order in which I put elements in the Lists is im

Answer 1

There are some hacky ways of doing this in JPA 1, but it's easiest to switch to a JPA 2 provider. The @OrderColumn annotation support is what you're looking for. Eclipselink have an ok tutorial on how to use it.