diff --git a/src/main/asciidoc/jpa.adoc b/src/main/asciidoc/jpa.adoc index 4d002e2c0..aac12f1d1 100644 --- a/src/main/asciidoc/jpa.adoc +++ b/src/main/asciidoc/jpa.adoc @@ -833,7 +833,11 @@ public class CustomerSpecs { ---- ==== -Admittedly, the amount of boilerplate leaves room for improvement (that may eventually be reduced by Java 8 closures), but the client side becomes much nicer, as you will see later in this section. The `Customer_` type is a metamodel type generated using the JPA Metamodel generator (see the link:$$https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/jpamodelgen/1.0/reference/en-US/html_single/#whatisit$$[Hibernate implementation's documentation for an example]). So the expression, `_Customer.createdAt`, assumes the `Customer` has a `createdAt` attribute of type `Date`. Besides that, we have expressed some criteria on a business requirement abstraction level and created executable `Specifications`. So a client might use a `Specification` as follows: +Admittedly, the amount of boilerplate leaves room for improvement (that may eventually be reduced by Java 8 closures), but the client side becomes much nicer, as you will see later in this section. +The `Customer_` type is a metamodel type generated using the JPA Metamodel generator (see the link:$$https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/jpamodelgen/1.0/reference/en-US/html_single/#whatisit$$[Hibernate implementation's documentation for an example]). +So the expression, `Customer_.createdAt`, assumes the `Customer` has a `createdAt` attribute of type `Date`. +Besides that, we have expressed some criteria on a business requirement abstraction level and created executable `Specifications`. +So a client might use a `Specification` as follows: .Using a simple Specification ====