jpa Getting started with jpa Minimal persistence.xml example

Example

Hibernate (and embedded H2 DB)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
                             http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd"
         version="2.1">

<persistence-unit name="persistenceUnit">
    <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>

    <class>my.application.entities.MyEntity</class>
    
    <properties>
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="org.h2.Driver" /> 
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:h2:data/myDB.db" /> 
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="sa" /> 

        <!-- DDL change options -->
        <property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.database.action" value="drop-and-create"/>

        <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect"/>
        <property name="hibernate.flushMode" value="FLUSH_AUTO" /> 
    </properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>

Eclipselink (and embedded H2 DB)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
                             http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd"
         version="2.1">

<persistence-unit name="persistenceUnit">
    <provider>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider</provider>

    <class>my.application.entities.MyEntity</class>
    
    <properties>
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="org.h2.Driver"/>
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:h2:data/myDB.db"/>
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="sa"/>

        <!-- Schema generation : drop and create tables -->
        <property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.database.action" value="drop-and-create-tables" />
    </properties>
</persistence-unit>

</persistence>

DataNucleus (and embedded H2 DB)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
                             http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd"
         version="2.1">

<persistence-unit name="persistenceUnit">
    <provider>org.datanucleus.api.jpa.PersistenceProviderImpl</provider>

    <class>my.application.entities.MyEntity</class>
    
    <properties>
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="org.h2.Driver"/>
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:h2:data/myDB.db"/>
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="sa"/>

        <!-- Schema generation : drop and create tables -->
        <property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.database.action" value="drop-and-create-tables" />
    </properties>
</persistence-unit>

</persistence>