Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Getting Started
3. Enterprise Applications
4. Object-Relational Mapping
5. Collection Mapping
6. Entity Manager
7. Using Queries
8. Query Language
9. Criteria API
10. Advanced Object-Relational Mapping
11. Advanced Topics
12. XML Mapping Files
13. Packaging and Deployment
14. Testing
15. Migration

About the Author

Mike Keith wasthe co-specification lead for JPA 1.0 and a member of the JPA 2.0 and JPA 2.1expert groups. He sits on a number of other Java Community Process expertgroups and the Enterprise Expert Group (EEG) in the OSGi Alliance. He holds aMasters degree in Computer Science from Carleton University, and has over 20years experience in persistence and distributed systems research and practice.He has written papers and articles on JPA and spoken at numerous conferencesaround the world. He is employed as an architect at Oracle in Ottawa, Canada,and is married with four kids and two dogs.