Confusion: @NotNull vs. @Column(nullable = false) with JPA and Hibernate

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@NotNull is a JSR 303 Bean Validation annotation. It has nothing to do with database constraints itself. As Hibernate is the reference implementation of JSR 303, however, it intelligently picks up on these constraints and translates them into database constraints for you, so you get two for the price of one. @Column(nullable = false) is the JPA way of declaring a column to be not-null. I.e. the former is intended for validation and the latter for indicating database schema details. You’re just getting some extra (and welcome!) help from Hibernate on the validation annotations.

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