A naming standard prescribes consistent names for database tables, columns, sequences, and related persistence artifacts. Hibernate can enforce these rules centrally instead of relying on repeated annotations that are easy to forget. section 5.3.1
Prefixing mapped table names
A PhysicalNamingStrategy can prepend CE_ to generated table names. For example, a mapped table named USERS becomes CE_USERS. Hibernate JPA enables the strategy through persistence.xml, while Spring Data JPA supplies the same property through LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean configuration. section 5.3.1
Explicit @Table names remain useful for individual exceptions. Avoid reserved words and quoted identifiers when possible, because escaping complicates ad hoc SQL and reporting queries. Entity names for JPQL queries may also need explicit differentiation when classes share the same simple name. section 5.3.1
