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Introduction to the Java Persistence API

The Java Persistence API provides an object/relational mapping facility to Java developers for managing relational data in Java applications. Java Persistence consists of three areas:

The Java Persistence API
The query language
Object/relational mapping metadata

The API defines the Java classes

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