Learn to use the Jakarta Persistence API and other related APIs as found in the Jakarta EE 10 platform from the perspective of one of the specification creators. A one-of-a-kind resource, this in-depth book provides both theoretical and practical coverage of Jakarta Persistence usage for experienced Java developers.

Authors Lukas Jungmann, Mike Keith, Merrick Schincariol, Massimo Nardone take a hands-on approach, based on their wealth of experience and expertise, by giving examples to illustrate each concept of the API and showing how it is used in practice. The examples use a common model from an overarching sample application, giving you a context from which to start and helping you to understand the examples within an already familiar domain. 

After completing this in-depth book, you will have a full understanding of persistence and be able to successfully code applications using its annotations and APIs. The book also serves as an excellent reference guide.

What You Will Learn

• Use Jakarta Persistence in the context of enterprise applications
• Work with object relational mappings (ORMs), collection mappings and more
• Build complex enterprise Java applications that persist data long after the process terminates
• Connect to and persist data with a variety of databases, file formats, and more
• Use queries, including the Jakarta Persistence Query Language (Jakarta Persistence QL)
• Carry out advanced ORM, queries and XML mappings
• Package, deploy and test your Jakarta persistence-enabled enterprise applications

Who This Book Is For

Experienced Java programmers and developers with at least some prior experience with Jakarta EE or Java EE platform APIs.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Getting Started

Chapter 3: Enterprise Applications

Chapter 4: Object-Relational Mapping

Chapter 5: Collection Mapping

Chapter 6: Entity Manager

Chapter 7: Using Queries

Chapter 8: Query Language

Chapter 9: Criteria API

Chapter 10: Advanced Object- Relational Mapping

Chapter 11: Advanced Queries

Chapter 12: Other Advanced Topics

Chapter 13: XML Mapping Files

Chapter 14: Packaging and Deployment

Chapter 15: Testing

About the Authors

Lukas Jungmann is the specification project co-lead for Jakarta Persistence, and the lead for a number of other Jakarta Specification projects including Jakarta Activation, Mail, XML Binding, SOAP with Attachments, and XML Web Services. He is a contributor to Jakarta Platform, JSON Processing, JSON Binding specification projects and is lead for a number of implementation projects of various Jakarta specifications including EclipseLink, Eclipse Metro and Eclipse Angus. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Informatics from University of Finance and Administration in Prague, Czech Republic, and has over 15 years’ experience working with Enterprise Java related technologies. He has spoken at numerous conferences around the world. He is employed as a software developer at Oracle in Prague, Czech Republic, and is married with three kids and one cat.

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

Merrick Schincariol is a senior engineer for the Oracle OC4J Java EE Container. He was a lead engineer for Oracle's EJB 3.0 release and co-author of Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API. Before joining Oracle, Merrick developed enterprise and large-scale systems for the telecommunications industry.

Massimo Nardone has more than 23 years of experiences in Security, Web/Mobile development, Cloud and IT Architecture and has been programming and teaching how to program with Android, Perl, PHP, Java, VB, Python, C/C++ and MySQL for more than 20 years. He currently works as Chief Information Security Office (CISO) for Cargotec Oyj and he is member of the ISACA Finland Chapter Board. Massimo has provided technical review for more than 40 IT books, and is the coauthor of Pro Android Games (Apress, 2015).