Eclipse JPA

Doug Clarke (Oracle Canada), Gordon Yorke (Oracle)

Data Tooling · Long Talk
Presentation
Thursday, 10:10, 50 minutes | Room 207 |

Doug Clarke

Gordon Yorke

Eclipse has lived most of its life as an IDE, and most will agree that it has achieved a great deal of success along the way. However, Eclipse is now establishing itself in the runtime space as well. Counted in its runtime component arsenal is its Equinox OSGi layer, its Rich Client Platform (RCP) API, and now a full Java Persistence Platform that includes a deluxe Java Persistence API (JPA) implementation. In this talk we will learn how to use the Eclipse JPA runtime layer both inside and outside the Eclipse IDE.

We will see how the Eclipse Dali tooling assists in developing a JPA application, and also see what configuration metadata might be needed to get the application running. As part of the discussion we will examine the difference between writing applications targeted for a full Java EE 5 container and those built to run in a standalone Java SE environment.

Attendees are not required to have experience with JPA, but having some kind of Java persistence knowledge or object-relational mapping experience will help.

Doug Clarke is a Director of Product Management for Oracle Application Server's Java Persistence solutions and the co-lead of the Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipseLink). Doug has extensive enterprise development, consulting, and educational field experience in the areas of object-relational persistence, data access, and systems integration. He brings together concrete experiences from projects of various sizes and industries with a practical approach to design, testing, and performance tuning.

Session and Keynote Speaking experience includes:

Java One and Sun Tech Days
Oracle Open World and Oracle Developer Days
The Server Side: Symposium and Java In Action
JAOO
Java Forum, Stuttgart
JAX
SpringOne
Colorado Software Summit
EclipseWorld

Gordon Yorke currently a JPA 2.0 Expert group member, EclipseLink Architecture Committee member, a JPA RI TopLink Essentials technical lead and a lead on Oracle TopLink. Gordon has many years of front line experience in the ORM space.