Persist object with JPA

package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.enterprise;

import java.util.Date;

import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
import javax.persistence.Persistence;

public class PersistObjectWithJPA {
	
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		
		EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("MyPersistenceUnit");
		
		EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();
		
		em.getTransaction().begin();
		
		Employee employee = new Employee();
		employee.setName("Jack");
		employee.setSurname("Thomson");
		employee.setTitle("QA Engineer");
		employee.setCreated(new Date());
		
		em.persist(employee);
		
		em.getTransaction().commit();
		
		em.close();
	    emf.close();

	}
	
}

package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.enterprise;

import java.util.Date;

import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;

@Entity
public class Employee {
	
	@Id
	@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
	private Long id;
    private String name;
    private String surname;
    private String title;
    private Date created;
    
	public Long getId() {
		return id;
	}
	public void setId(Long id) {
		this.id = id;
	}
	
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}
	
	public String getSurname() {
		return surname;
	}
	public void setSurname(String surname) {
		this.surname = surname;
	}
	
	public String getTitle() {
		return title;
	}
	public void setTitle(String title) {
		this.title = title;
	}
	
	public Date getCreated() {
		return created;
	}
	public void setCreated(Date created) {
		this.created = created;
	}
	
	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "Employee [id=" + id + ", name=" + name + ", surname=" + surname
				+ ", title=" + title + "]";
	}

}

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_2_0.xsd"
    version="2.0">
	
	<persistence-unit name="MyPersistenceUnit" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
		<provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
		<properties>
			<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect" />
			<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update" />
			<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
			<property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="jcg" />
			<property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="jcg" />
			<property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/companydb" />
		</properties>
	</persistence-unit>
	
</persistence>