The pros and cons of injecting EntityManagerFactory vs EntityManager are all spelled out in the Spring docs here, I’m not sure if I can improve on that. Saying that, there are some points in your question that should be cleared up. …Spring would create a new instance of a DAO for every web request… This … Read more
EntityManager#remove() works only on entities which are managed in the current transaction/context. In your case, you’re retrieving the entity in an earlier transaction, storing it in the HTTP session and then attempting to remove it in a different transaction/context. This just won’t work. You need to check if the entity is managed by EntityManager#contains() and … Read more
A call to EntityManager.flush(); will force the data to be persisted in the database immediately as EntityManager.persist() will not (depending on how the EntityManager is configured: FlushModeType (AUTO or COMMIT) by default is set to AUTO and a flush will be done automatically. But if it’s set to COMMIT the persistence of the data to … Read more
Is there a way to initialize the EntityManager without a persistence unit defined? You should define at least one persistence unit in the persistence.xml deployment descriptor. Can you give all the required properties to create an Entitymanager? The name attribute is required. The other attributes and elements are optional. (JPA specification). So this should be … Read more
You shouldn’t use @Autowired. @PersistenceContext takes care to create a unique EntityManager for every thread. In a production application you can have multiple clients calling your application in the same time. For each call, the application creates a thread. Each thread should use its own EntityManager. Imagine what would happen if they share the same … Read more
Either way will add an entity to a PersistenceContext, the difference is in what you do with the entity afterwards. Persist takes an entity instance, adds it to the context and makes that instance managed (i.e. future updates to the entity will be tracked). Merge returns the managed instance that the state was merged with. … Read more