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This article is the last part of the article series Java Persistence API (JPA), the earlier articles are introduction to JPA and the query api in JPA. This article is only for explaining the sample program with concepts used in the previous articles. I would recommend reading the previous two articles before start analyzing this [...]

Introduction One of the disadvantage of locating the entity objects using the EntityManager.find() and EntityManager.getReference() methods is, we cannot specify any powerful search criteria for searching the entity objects. All we can provide is the primary key to request for a particular object. Another fact is the class name of entity must be known. The [...]

Introduction Java Persistence API (JPA) provides POJO (Plain Old Java Object) standard and object relational mapping (OR mapping) for data persistence among applications. Persistence, which deals with storing and retrieving of application data, can now be programmed with Java Persistence API starting from EJB 3.0 as a result of JSR 220. This API has borrowed [...]