Using JPA in Java SE environment.

[Bala Gangadhar]

Hi ,
I want develop a simple desktop application. For that i want use JPA to handle the persistance logic.
What are the jar files i need to download ( means where the implementation for JPA spec is available)
Is the Hibernate 3.0 an implementation for JPA specification ?.

Just give me simple steps to wirte a simple java program to store an entity ( at least give me the url where the example available, i have googled for the same and most of them are in J2EE environment, but i need in J2SE)

thanks in advance,
Bala

[Douglas Graham]

The Sun Web site is an amazing place. I found this by googling "jpa desktop applications", Using the Java Persistence API in Desktop Applications.

[Manuel Alberto Quero]

Hello Bala,

It is possible to use Hibernate as JPA implementation in a J2SE environment.

In order to use Hibernate in a J2SE environment basically you have to configure some parameters (transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL") since you cannot use connection pools and other resources from J2EE application servers.

You can find detailed information in Hibernate documentation:

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/entitymanager/reference/en/html/configuration.html

(Go to the sentence "Here is a typical configuration in a J2SE environment" :wink

The way you use Hibernate from your J2SE application is exactly the same as you do from any J2EE application so you can follow any Hibernate example.

Regards,

Manuel

[Bala Gangadhar]

Thanks for the reply.