January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
9h 7m
English
The Java Persistence API (JPA) is the link to the database (MySQL for our quote application we created in chapter 1). Its goal is to enable an application to map the database model to Java objects. The gain is that we can use the database as any object.
For instance, consider the following table, which matches our quote representation in the database:

The preceding table can be converted into the following object in Java, thanks to JPA annotations:

While the tables are flat, mapping them in JPA is pretty straightforward, ...
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