OpenJPA is an

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implementation of the

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specification. It is an object-relational mapping (ORM) solution for the

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language, which simplifies storing objects in databases. It is

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distributed under the Apache License 2.0.

History

Kodo, a

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implementation, was originally developed by SolarMetric, Inc in 2001.

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acquired SolarMetric in 2005, where Kodo was expanded to be an implementation of both the JDO (JSR 12) and JPA (JSR 220) specifications. In 2006, BEA donated a large part of the Kodo source code to the

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under the name OpenJPA. The donated source code will be the core persistence engine of BEA Weblogic Server,

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, and the

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Application Server. In May 2007, OpenJPA graduated from the incubator to a top-level project and also passed Sun's

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compliant with the Java Persistence API.OpenJPA Project Incubation Status
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Kodo Towards an Open Source EJB 3.0 Persistence Engine by Jon Mountjoy
by Kevin Sutter
Interview with Patrick Linskey
discusses OpenJPA and the JPA specification on August 23, 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Apache Openjpa OpenJPA Object-relational mapping Java enterprise platform

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