Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. So does "ease": https://twitter.com/thjanssen123/status/588212182225039361 Thorben writes very good and useful articles about JPA, and he's recently started an excellent series about JPA 2.1's new features. Among which: Result set mapping. We can summarise this mapping procedure as follows: a) define the mapping @SqlResultSetMapping( name = "BookAuthorMapping", entities … Continue reading How JPA 2.1 has become the new EJB 2.0