What's next?

This chapter introduced the basic principles of JPA with ObjectDB. For more details, see the other chapters in this manual. To start using ObjectDB immediately, follow one of the tutorials below to create and run the example program from this chapter:

Eclipse JPA Tutorial

NetBeans JPA Tutorial

These tutorials explain how to run the example program. You can start your own ObjectDB/JPA projects by modifying this example program.

Next chapters

The following three chapters provide more details about using JPA with ObjectDB:

Entity Classes Using JPA JPA Queries

The final two chapters cover tools and settings that are specific to ObjectDB:

Tools and Utilities Configuration

< CRUD Operations ^ Quick Tour Entity Classes >

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