JPA - Java Persistence API (JPA)

About

The Java Persistence API is the Java API for the management of persistence and object/relational mapping for:

• Java EE
• and Java SE environments

The Java Persistence consists of:

• The Java Persistence API or JPA (entitymanager)
• Object or relational mapping metadata to map Java Object (entity, …). into one or more tables of a database.
• The query language

More:

• JPA - Getting Started - Hello World
• JPA - Specification
• A persistence provider refers to a library implementation of the Java Persistence API.
• JPA - API (Programming Model)

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Documentation / Reference

• Java Persistence Architecture