Performing a LEFT OUTER JOIN using JPQL and JPA

Haven’t made a tutorial-type post in a while so here’s an installment of documenting something that should be already documented. The problem at hand is a very common one: how do you do a LEFT OUTER JOIN on two tables (entities) when you’re using the Java Persistence API.
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IIS messes with the application lifecycle in a way Tomcat wouldn’t dare

How would you dig it if someone randomly restarted your application every few minutes or so for absolutely no reason? Would you be upset, angry or plain confused on why an application server would bother recycling an application at seemingly random intervals without being prompted. See, just like the Servlet specification defines the ServletContextListener [...]