You can. It's just not mundane JPA. Hibernate had the same feature before JPA borrowed it. I was the only person that new Hibernate well enough to do that. JPA

You can. It's just not mundane JPA. Hibernate had the same feature before JPA borrowed it. I was the only person that new Hibernate well enough to do that. JPA targets normal CRUD->POJO apps for it's common case. Under most circumstances you don't need raw SQL for that.