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JPA - Architecture

Java Persistence API is a source to store business entities as relational entities.


It shows how to define a PLAIN OLD JAVA OBJECT (POJO) as an entity and how
to manage entities with relations.

Class Level Architecture


The following image shows the class level architecture of JPA. It shows the core
classes and interfaces of JPA.

The following table describes each of the units shown in the above architecture.

Units Description

This is a factory class of EntityManager. It creates

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EntityManagerFactory and manages multiple EntityManager instances.

It is an Interface, it manages the persistence


EntityManager operations on objects. It works like factory for
Query instance.

Entities are the persistence objects, stores as


Entity
records in the database.

It has one-to-one relationship with EntityManager.


EntityTransaction For each EntityManager, operations are maintained
by EntityTransaction class.

This class contain static methods to obtain


Persistence
EntityManagerFactory instance.

This interface is implemented by each JPA vendor to


Query
obtain relational objects that meet the criteria.

The above classes and interfaces are used for storing entities into a database as
a record. They help programmers by reducing their efforts to write codes for
storing data into a database so that they can concentrate on more important
activities such as writing codes for mapping the classes with database tables.

JPA Class Relationships


In the above architecture, the relations between the classes and interfaces
belong to the javax.persistence package. The following diagram shows the
relationship between them.

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The relationship between EntityManagerFactory and EntityManager is
one-to-many. It is a factory class to EntityManager instances.
The relationship between EntityManager and EntityTransaction is one-to-
one. For each EntityManager operation, there is an EntityTransaction
instance.
The relationship between EntityManager and Query is one-to-many.
Many number of queries can execute using one EntityManager instance.
The relationship between EntityManager and Entity is one-to-many. One
EntityManager instance can manage multiple Entities.

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