In this article, an excerpt from Pro EJB 3.0: Java Persistence API (Apress, May 2006), authors Mike Keith and Merrick Schincariol discuss the issues of moving away from container-managed ...

The Java Persistence API draws on ideas from leading persistence frameworks and APIs such as Hibernate, Oracle TopLink, Java Data Objects, (JDO) and EJB container-managed persistence.

Some frameworks have been persisting Java objects to relational databases for a long time, and vast numbers of applications are written by use of O/R frameworks. Applications that are currently using ...

EJB 3.0 is standardizing the persistence API for the Java platform. The persistence objects, called entities, are nothing but POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) and are annotated with @Entity.

Published in July 2006, the best selling book Mastering EJB is now in its fourth edition and has been updated for EJB 3.0. This edition features chapters on session beans and message-driven beans, EJB ...

Oracle has moved its TopLink Java persistence API set into the Eclipse Foundation community, the first time Oracle has overseen a runtime project with Eclipse-- and an indication that Oracle's ...

Developers have a persistence offering to work with native Hibernate, Java Developer Kit 5.0 annotations, the Java Persistence API, or EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) 3.0. Hibernate will square off with ...

Hibernate EntityManager implements the Java Persistence programming interfaces, object lifecycle rules, and query options as defined by Java Specification Request 220 (EJB 3.0).

The plan, which could delay the delivery of Java 2 Enterprise Edition 5.0, is to reconcile Java's persistence models, where a single model would run across the Java platform.

The Java Persistence API names this a persistent entity. The latter is owed the fact that the Java Persistence API should be usable no longer only for Java EE, but also for Java SE.