What does an underscore concatenated to a class name mean?

That is the metamodel for the persistance. It is how you can do type safe JPA queries in Java. It allows queries to staticly check your queries because classBar_ describes your JPA Bar. In HQL, you can easily mistype a query and not know it until it is run.

So technically, the _ does not mean anything, but it is the convention used by JPA to name a metamodel class of a JPA persistent model class. Model_ is the metamodel of Model, and it provides the names of the queryable fields and their types.

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