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Java - Java Persistence API (JPA) - Jakarta Persistence

Java - Java Persistence API (JPA) - Jakarta Persistence

Nov 17, 2022

Java Persistence API (JPA) - Jakarta Persistence

  • Jakarta Persistence (JPA) formerly Java Persistence API
  • is a Jakarta EE application programming interface specification that describes the management of relational data in enterprise Java applications
  • The API itself, is defined in the jakarta.persistence package (javax.persistence for Jakarta EE 8 and below)
  • its most common implementation is Hibernate (see Java - JPA vs Hibernate)