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Revision as of 13:36, 14 February 2008

What is EclipseLink?

Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipseLink) is a comprehensive persistence framework delivering a set of persistence services based around leading standards with advanced extensions. Consumers can use EclipseLink within Java EE, SE, and soon OSGi/Equinox environments.

The original source contribution for EclipseLink came from Oracle Corporation's TopLink product.

See Introduction to EclipseLink in the EclipseLink User's Guide for more information.

What is the relationship between EclipseLink and the Oracle TopLink product?

EclipseLink was initiated based on the contribution of Oracle TopLink (Oracle FAQ for TopLink contribution).

What are the components of EclipseLink?

The EclipseLink project is broken down into several components based on persistence services provided as well an a structure to organize development and produce functional OSGi/Equinox bundles.

  • Foundation
  • JPA
  • MOXy
  • SDO
  • DBWS
  • EIS
  • Utils
  • Examples
  • Documentation

For a more detailed description of the component see EclipseLink/Components.


What are the components of the EclipseLink project?

The EclipseLink project has several components delivering various persistence services implementations or supporting functionality.

More Details available here.

Where can I download EclipseLink?

At present EclipseLink can only be downloaded directly from the Eclipse project's website:

http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/downloads/index.php

How do I get started using EclipseLink?

Where can I find documentation on EclipseLink?

The complete EclipseLink User Guide is available on this wiki at EclipseLink/UserGuide.

If you encounter any problems using the User Guide please file a bug against the Documentation component.

Where can I find examples of how to use EclipseLink?

The EclipseLink development team continually works on providing a comprehensive set of examples and how-to's for each of its persistence services that will assist customers in the quick adoption of this project. The examples are hosted on this wiki here.

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