javax.persistence.Id
File: Message.java import java.util.Date; import javax.persistence.Basic; import javax.persistence.Entity; import javax.persistence.Id; @Entity public class Message { @Id private long id = System.currentTimeMillis(); @Basic private String message; @Basic private Date created = new Date(); public Message() { } public Message(String msg) { message = msg; } public void setId(long val) { id = val; } public long getId() { return id; } public void setMessage(String msg) { message = msg; } public String getMessage() { return message; } public void setCreated(Date date) { created = date; } public Date getCreated() { return created; } } File: ProfessorService.java import java.util.List; import javax.persistence.EntityManager; import javax.persistence.Query; public class ProfessorService { protected EntityManager em; public ProfessorService(EntityManager em) { this.em = em; } public void messageCreateAndList() { em.persist(new Message("Hello Persistence!")); Query q = em.createQuery("select m from Message m"); for (Message m : (List<Message>) q.getResultList()) { System.out.println(m.getMessage() + " (created on: " + m.getCreated() + ")"); } } } File: JPAUtil.java import java.io.Reader; import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.ResultSetMetaData; import java.sql.Statement; public class JPAUtil { Statement st; public JPAUtil() throws Exception{ Class.forName("org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"); System.out.println("Driver Loaded."); String url = "jdbc:hsqldb:data/tutorial"; Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, "sa", ""); System.out.println("Got Connection."); st = conn.createStatement(); } public void executeSQLCommand(String sql) throws Exception { st.executeUpdate(sql); } public void checkData(String sql) throws Exception { ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery(sql); ResultSetMetaData metadata = rs.getMetaData(); for (int i = 0; i < metadata.getColumnCount(); i++) { System.out.print("\t"+ metadata.getColumnLabel(i + 1)); } System.out.println("\n----------------------------------"); while (rs.next()) { for (int i = 0; i < metadata.getColumnCount(); i++) { Object value = rs.getObject(i + 1); if (value == null) { System.out.print("\t "); } else { System.out.print("\t"+value.toString().trim()); } } System.out.println(""); } } } File: Main.java import javax.persistence.EntityManager; import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory; import javax.persistence.Persistence; public class Main { public static void main(String[] a) throws Exception { JPAUtil util = new JPAUtil(); EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("ProfessorService"); EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager(); ProfessorService service = new ProfessorService(em); em.getTransaction().begin(); service.messageCreateAndList(); util.checkData("select * from Message"); em.getTransaction().commit(); em.close(); emf.close(); } } File: persistence.xml <persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence" version="1.0"> <persistence-unit name="JPAService" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL"> <properties> <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect"/> <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update"/> <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"/> <property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="sa"/> <property name="hibernate.connection.password" value=""/> <property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:data/tutorial"/> </properties> </persistence-unit> </persistence>