Chapter 8. Object-relational mapping
This chapter covers
- Object-relational mapping concepts
- Mapping entities to tables
- Relationship mapping
- Inheritance mapping strategies
In the previous chapter, we used EJB 3 JPA features to create a POJO domain model that supported a full range of OO features, including inheritance. We discussed entities, embedded objects, and the relationships between them using EJB 3 annotations. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to persist our domain model into a relational database using object-relational mapping (ORM), which is the basis for JPA. In effect, ORM specifies how sets of Java objects, including references between them, are mapped to rows and columns in database tables. The first part of this chapter briefly ...
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