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JPA overview

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JPA overview

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- [Instructor] The Java Persistence API, or JPA, is a Java EE API for accessing, persisting, and managing Java objects and a relational database. It is one of my favorite APIs because it makes it incredibly simple to perform CRUD operations against a relational data store. JPA supports object-relational mapping, which is a technique for using an annotated object model for persisting data to a relational database. This greatly simplifies how we read, write, update, and delete data in a database from our Java applications, which is also known as data persistence. Using object-relational mapping, it is possible to write Java applications that interact with a relational database without writing any SQL. When using JPA, developers only work with objects and the underlying SQL is handled by the JPA provider. It is important to note that JPA is just a specification or API. The underlying implementation is built by JPA providers.…

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