Continuing Vincent Partington's blog series about JPA implementation patterns, I would like to add the following

The default way in JPA for primary keys is to use the @GeneratedValue annotation with the strategy attribute set to one of AUTO, IDENTITY, SEQUENCE, or TABLE. You pick the most appropriate strategy for your situation and that's it.
But you can also choose to generate the primary key yourself.
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