PreparedStatement alternative within JPA?

Question

I am new to JPA, I used to used prepared statement in JDBC. Is there alternative to be used within JPA ? as there is a query which I call frequently

see this for info about prepared statment http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc/basics/prepared.html

thanks in advance,,,

Answer 1

The JPA way is EntityManager#createQuery() with named parameters in JPQL (examples in this chapter).