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## 40 Introduction to the Java Persistence API

This chapter provides a description of the Java Persistence API.

The following topics are addressed here:

- Overview of the Java Persistence API

- Entities

- Entity Inheritance

- Managing Entities

- Querying Entities

- Database Schema Creation

- Further Information about Persistence

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