How to keep track of everything with JPA/Hibernate?

Question

I was wondering how I could keep track of what's going on with entities, like who created the user, when, when was it last accessed ?

More than that, I would also like to know about previous changes. to keep it simple I'd like to keep track of every changes.

Is there a solution for that ?

edit :

For Hibernate : we can use Envers that seems to cover the needs

Check out the [Hibernate ORM Envers](http://hibernate.org/orm/envers/) project. This enables `easy auditing/versioning of persistent classes`. I think that is what you are looking for. — Madhusudana Reddy Sunnapu, Mar 27 '16 at 17:47
Indeed It seems to be what I'm looking for, is there something like Envers for other JPA implementations ? — Seb, Mar 28 '16 at 11:55
There might be some but frankly I am aware of alternatives. As auditing is not part JPA spec it is up to the implementors. — Madhusudana Reddy Sunnapu, Mar 28 '16 at 12:25

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '16 at 12:31

You may want to check out the Hibernate ORM Envers project. This enables easy auditing/versioning of persistent classes.

Regarding, there something like Envers for other JPA implementations

There might be some but, frankly, I am aware of other alternatives. As auditing is not part JPA spec, it is up to the implementors.

A quick search has yielded following link EclipseLink HistoryPolicy which looks similar to Envers but for eclipseLink.

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