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We are having an extra meeting in May. This will be a lunch time meeting at 12:00pm on Monday 12th May in our regular room - 3.224. Lunch will be served from 12pm and the talk will start at 12:30pm.

Associate Professor Neil Gray will be presenting a talk on the Java Persistence Architecture.

We will be catering with pizza and drinks as usual, so please RSVP to Andrew Zahra by Friday 9th May.

We will also be giving away a copy of “Java in a Nutshell” thanks to our sponsor O’Reilly.

Read on for an outline of the talk.

The Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) became a part of the Java standard with the Java Specifications Request JSR222 Enterprise Java Beans 3 (2006). The JPA represents the culmination of several lines of development including the earlier EJB container managed persistence models and other persistence frameworks such as Hibernate, Oracle’s Toplink, and Java Data Objects. One of the major achievements of JSR222 is that the JPA is not limited to container managed systems; the technology is equally applicable to simple Java Standard Edition desktop applications.

This talk will provide an overview of the JPA based mainly on examples that illustrate the advantages of JPA over conventional persistence using JDBC in desktop and web applications.