JPA, as a one of the most useful technology from JEE world, is commonly overlooked in Java SE enviroments. There is a lot of documentation, manuals, tutorials but most of them are aimed to JEE enviroments. Unfortunatelly some of essential concepts is different if used outside JEE. Fortunatelly most of things are simpler. In this post I would like to briefly introduce you into JPA 2.0 for Java SE heavily based on official JPA 2.0 specification in simplified “destilled” form. Read the rest of this entry »