-Admittedly, the amount of boilerplate leaves room for improvement (that may eventually be reduced by Java 8 closures), but the client side becomes much nicer, as you will see later in this section. The `Customer_` type is a metamodel type generated using the JPA Metamodel generator (see the link:$$https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/jpamodelgen/1.0/reference/en-US/html_single/#whatisit$$[Hibernate implementation's documentation for an example]). So the expression, `_Customer.createdAt`, assumes the `Customer` has a `createdAt` attribute of type `Date`. Besides that, we have expressed some criteria on a business requirement abstraction level and created executable `Specifications`. So a client might use a `Specification` as follows:
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