Java - Java Persistence API (JPA) - Jakarta Persistence

Java Persistence API (JPA) - Jakarta Persistence

• Jakarta Persistence (JPA) formerly Java Persistence API
• is a Jakarta EE application programming interface specification that describes the management of relational data in enterprise Java applications
• The API itself, is defined in the jakarta.persistence package (javax.persistence for Jakarta EE 8 and below)
• its most common implementation is Hibernate (see Java - JPA vs Hibernate)