Jakarta Persistence
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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.
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Persistence in this context covers three areas:
- The API itself, defined in the
jakarta.persistence
package (javax.persistence
for Jakarta EE 8 and below) - The Jakarta Persistence Query Language (JPQL; formerly Java Persistence Query Language)
- Object/relational metadata
The reference implementation for JPA is EclipseLink.[1]