Master Hibernate and JPA with Spring Boot in 100 Steps - Step 40 - ManyToMany Mapping - Insert Student and Course

The video tutorial explains how to manage many-to-many relationships in JPA by creating and persisting student and course entities. It covers the process of establishing relationships between these entities, debugging the execution, and transitioning from hardcoded to dynamic values. The tutorial concludes with a demonstration of the final execution and encourages viewers to explore additional methods for adding courses to students and vice versa.

What is the role of the entity manager in persisting entities?

Explain the significance of the owning side in a JPA relationship.

How can you modify the method to remove hardcoded values for student and course insertion?