Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 8 The Java EE Tutorial

## Overview of the Java Persistence API

The Java Persistence API provides Java developers with an object/relational mapping facility for managing relational data in Java applications. Java Persistence consists of four areas:

- The Java Persistence API

- The query language

- The Java Persistence Criteria API

- Object/relational mapping metadata

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