Concurrency and Locking With JPA: Everything You Need to Know

Imagine you have a system used by multiple users where each user is trying to modify the same entity concurrently. How do you ensure that the underlying data's integrity is preserved when accessed concurrently?

The persistence providers an offer locking strategy to manage concurrency. There are two types of locking: Optimistic locking and Pessimistic locking. Before we deep dive into the locking strategy, let's learn a little bit about ACID transactions.