jpa Getting started with jpa Installation or Setup

Example

Classpath requirements

Eclipselink

The Eclipselink and JPA API need to be included. Example Maven dependencies:

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
    <artifactId>eclipselink</artifactId>
    <version>2.6.3</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
    <artifactId>javax.persistence</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.1</version>
  </dependency>
  <!-- ... -->
</dependencies>

Hibernate

Hibernate-core is required. Example Maven dependency:

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <!-- requires Java8! -->
    <!-- as of 5.2, hibernate-entitymanager is merged into hibernate-core -->
    <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
    <version>5.2.1.Final</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.1-api</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
  </dependency>
  <!-- ... -->
</dependencies>

DataNucleus

datanucleus-core, datanucleus-api-jpa and datanucleus-rdbms (when using RDBMS datastores) are required. Example Maven dependency:

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.datanucleus</groupId>
    <artifactId>datanucleus-core</artifactId>
    <version>5.0.0-release</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.datanucleus</groupId>
    <artifactId>datanucleus-api-jpa</artifactId>
    <version>5.0.0-release</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.datanucleus</groupId>
    <artifactId>datanucleus-rdbms</artifactId>
    <version>5.0.0-release</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.datanucleus</groupId>
    <artifactId>javax.persistence</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.2</version>
  </dependency>
  <!-- ... -->
</dependencies>

Configuration Details

JPA requires the use of a file persistence.xml, located under META-INF from the root of the CLASSPATH. This file contains a definition of the available persistence units from which JPA can operate.

JPA additionally allows use of a mapping configuration file orm.xml, also placed under META-INF. This mapping file is used to configure how classes are mapped to the datastore, and is an alternative/supplement to use of Java annotations in the JPA entity classes themselves.