Part 3. Diving into the Java Persistence API (JPA)

The goal of this part is to provide deep and broad coverage of JPA in a digestible manner. After reading this part of the book, you will have all the knowledge necessary to start developing robust business applications using JPA.

Chapter 7, “Implementing domain models,” covers domain modeling, a central concept in ORM. The chapter describes how a conceptual business application domain model is translated to JPA entities, embedded objects, and entity relationships.

Chapter 8, “Object-relational mapping,” takes on the most complicated aspects of ORM: mapping entities, embedded objects, and entity relationships to databases. The chapter covers the annotations you can use for mapping objects to ...

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