Revision as of 11:06, 8 February 2011

The EclipseLink JPA User's Guide

Version 2.2.0 (In progress)

EclipseLink Home

Introduction:	About EclispeLink	Release Notes	FAQs	Javadoc (API)
Basic:	Configuration	Mapping	Caching	Querying	Transactions
Advanced:	Performance	Platforms	Dynamic
	Search the EclipseLink JPA documentation wiki.

Complete Table of Contents:

Introduction

• Introduction
  • About EclispeLink
  • Object-Persistence Impedance Mismatch
  • EclipseLink Application Architectures

Basic JPA Development

• Basic JPA Development
  • About EclipseLink JPA
  • Configuration
    • JPA
      • persistence.xml
      • Annotations
      • orm.xml
      • Defaults
      • eclipselink-orm.xml
      • Overriding and Merging
  • Mapping
    • Entity Identity
      • @Id
      • @IdClass
      • @EmbeddedId
      • @GeneratedValue
      • @TableGenerator
      • @SequenceGenerator
    • Basic Mappings
      • Enumerated
      • Temporal
      • Lob
      • Transient
      • Column
      • Default Conversions and Converters
        • @Converter
        • @TypeConverter
        • @ObjectTypeConverter
        • @StructConverter
        • @Convert
      • Lazy Basics
    • Relationship Mappings
      • Common Relationship Configurations
        • Fetch Type
      • Collection Mappings
        • Common Collection Configurations
        • OneToMany
        • ManyToMany
    • Locking
      • Optimistic Locking
  • Caching
    • Shared and Isolated
    • Type and Size
    • Expiration
    • Coordination
  • Querying
    • Overview
    • JPQL
    • Criteria
    • Additional Criteria ready for review
    • Native
    • Query Hints
  • Transactions
    • Handling Concurrency Violations

Advanced JPA Development

• Advanced JPA Development
  • Schema Generation ready for review
    • @Index ready for review
    • @CascadeOnDelete ready for review
    • Appending strings to CREATE TABLE statements ready for review
  • Data Partitioning ready for review
  • JPA RESTful Services ready for review
  • Performance
    • Performance Monitoring and Profiling ready for review
      • Performance Profiling
      • Fetch Group Monitoring ready for review
      • Performance Monitoring ready for review
      • Query Monitoring ready for review
    • Weaving
      • About Weaving
        • Weaving JPA Entities
        • Weaving POJO Classes
        • Weaving and Java EE Application Servers
      • Dynamic Weaving
      • Static Weaving
      • Disabling Weaving with Persistence Unit Properties
    • Fetch Groups
  • Platform Specific Configurations
    • Oracle
    • DB2
    • MySQL
  • Dynamic