Prior to the introduction of the Java Persistence API, no single persistence standard was available for both the Java SE and Java EE environments. Introduced as a part of Java EE 5, the Java ...

Persistence is one of the greatest challenges for building applications. There are many options for building persistence layers. Data Access Objects (DAO) is a popular design pattern for building the ...

Until the publication of the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 specification and the Java Persistence API, the only persistence technology officially part of the Java Enterprise Edition platform (Java EE is ...