Contents

List of Examples

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Overview of EclipseLink

• Understanding EclipseLink
  • What Is the Object-Persistence Impedance Mismatch?
  • The EclipseLink Solution
• Key Features
• Key Concepts
  • EclipseLink Metadata
  • Entities
  • Descriptors
  • Mappings
  • Data Access
  • Caching
  • Queries
  • Expression Framework
  • NoSQL Databases
  • Performance Monitoring and Profiling
• Key Components
  • EclipseLink Core and API
  • Object-Relational (JPA 2.1) Component
  • JAXB Component
  • MOXy Component
    • SDO Component
  • Database Web Services Component
• Key Tools
  • Oracle JDeveloper
  • Eclipse
  • NetBeans

2 Understanding Object-Relational and MOXy Internals

• About Metadata
  • Advantages of the Metadata Architecture
  • Creating Project Metadata
    • Entity Mappings
    • Data Source Login Information
  • Creating Session Metadata
• About the Object-Relational Solution
  • Understanding Object-Relational Entity Architecture
    • Entities
    • Persistence and Persistence Units
    • Entity Managers
  • Adding Metadata Using Annotations
    • Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Annotations
  • About Configuration Basics
    • Default Annotation Values
    • Configuring Persistence Units Using persistence.xml
    • Object-Relational Data Type Mappings
  • About Data Sources
  • About EclipseLink Caches
    • Defining Cache Behavior
    • Caching in Clustered Environments
  • About Database Queries
• About the MOXy Solution
  • Using EclipseLink MOXy as the JAXB Provider
  • Understanding MOXy Architecture
    • JAXB Contexts and JAXB Context Factories
  • Serving Metadata for MOXy
  • About XML Bindings
  • Querying Objects by XPath

3 Understanding the Persistence Unit

• About the Persistence Unit
  • About the Persistence Unit Name
  • About the Persistence Provider
  • About the Transaction Type Data Source
  • About Logging
  • About Vendor Properties
  • About Mapping Files
  • About Managed Classes
  • About the Deployment Classpath
  • About Persistence Unit Packaging Options
  • About the Persistence Unit Scope
  • About Composite Persistence Units
• Building and Using the Persistence Layer
  • Implementation Options
    • Using EclipseLink JPA Metatdata, Annotations, and XML
    • Using EclipseLink Metadata Java API
    • Using Method and Direct Field Access
    • Using Java Byte-code Weaving
  • Persistent Class Requirements
  • Persistence Layer Components
    • Mapping Metadata
    • Cache
    • Queries and Expressions
• About Persisting Objects
  • Application Object Model
  • Data Storage Schema
  • Primary Keys and Object Identity
  • Mappings
  • Foreign Keys and Object Relationships
  • Inheritance
  • Concurrency
  • Caching
  • Nonintrusive Persistence
  • Indirection
  • Mutability
• Migrating Applications to the EclipseLink Persistence Manager
• About Weaving
  • Using Dynamic Weaving
  • Using Static Weaving
  • Weaving POJO Classes
  • Weaving and Java EE Application Servers
  • Disabling Weaving with Persistence Unit Properties

4 Understanding Entities

• Identifying Entities
• Entities and Persistent Identity
• Entities and Database Tables
• Entities and Inheritance
• Entities and Embedded Objects
• Entities and Sequence Generation
• Entities and Locking
• Extensible Entities

5 Understanding Descriptors

• Common Descriptor Concepts
  • Descriptor Architecture
  • Descriptors and Inheritance
    • Specifying a Class Indicator
    • Inheritance and Primary Keys
    • Single and Multi-Table Inheritance
    • Aggregate and Composite Descriptors and Inheritance
  • Descriptors and Aggregation
  • Descriptor Customization
  • Amendment Methods
  • Descriptor Event Manager
• Object-Relational Descriptor Concepts
  • Fetch Groups
    • AttributeGroup Types and Operations
    • FetchGroup
    • Default FetchGroup
    • Named FetchGroup
    • Full FetchGroup
    • Load/LoadAll with FetchGroup
    • LoadGroup
    • CopyGroup
    • Merging
  • Descriptor Query Manager
  • Descriptors and Sequencing
  • Descriptors and Locking
    • Optimistic Version Locking Policies
    • Pessimistic Locking Policies
    • Applying Locking in an Application
• Descriptor Files
  • Using orm.xml for Object-Relational Mappings
  • Using eclipselink-orm.xml for EclipseLink Object-Relational Mappings
    • Overriding and Merging Mapping Information
    • Validating the XML Schema
    • Advantages and Disadvantages of Using XML
  • Using eclipselink-oxm.xml for EclipseLink MOXy Mappings

6 Understanding Mappings

• Common Mapping Concepts
  • Mapping Architecture
  • Mapping Examples
  • Mapping Converters
    • Serialized Object Converter
    • Type Conversion Converter
    • Object Type Converter
  • Transformation Mapping
• Object-Relational Mapping Concepts
  • Indirection (Lazy Loading)
  • Indirection, Serialization, and Detachment
  • Value Holder Indirection
  • Transparent Indirection
  • Proxy Indirection
    • Proxy Indirection Restrictions
  • Weaved Indirection
  • About JPA Mapping Types
    • Basic Mappings
    • Default Conversions and Converters
    • Collection Mappings
    • Using Optimistic Locking
• MOXy Mapping Concepts
  • Understanding an XML Data Representation
  • Mapping Values
• Object-JSON Mapping Concepts

7 Understanding Data Access

• About Externally Managed Transactional Data Sources
• About Data Source Login Types
• About Data Source Platform Types
• About Authentication
  • Simple JDBC Authentication
  • Oracle Database Proxy Authentication
  • Auditing
• About Connections
• About Connection Pools
  • Internal Connection Pools
  • External Connection Pools
  • Default (Write) and Read Connection Pools
  • Sequence Connection Pools
  • Application-Specific Connection Pools
• About Data Partitioning Policies
• About Tenant Isolation
  • Single Table Multi-Tenancy
  • Table-Per-Tenant Multi-Tenancy
  • VPD Multi-Tenancy
• About Heterogeneous Batch Writing

8 Understanding Caching

• About Cache Architecture
  • Persistence Unit Cache
  • Persistence Context Cache
    • Application Managed Persistence Contexts
    • Container Managed Persistence Contexts
  • Shared, Isolated, Protected, Weak, and Read-only Caches
    • Isolated Cache
    • Shared Cache
    • Protected Cache
    • Weak Reference Mode
    • Read-Only Entities
• About Cache Type and Size
  • FULL Cache Type
  • WEAK Cache Type
  • SOFT Cache Type
  • SOFT_WEAK and HARD_WEAK Cache Type
  • NONE and CACHE
  • Guidelines for Configuring the Cache and Identity Maps
    • About the Internals of Weak, Soft, and Hard Cache Types
• About Queries and the Cache
  • About Query Cache Options and In-memory Querying
• About Handling Stale Data
  • Configuring a Locking Policy
    • Optimistic Locking
    • Pessimistic Locking
  • Configuring the Cache on a Per-Class Basis
  • Forcing a Cache Refresh when Required on a Per-Query Basis
  • Configuring Cache Invalidation
  • Configuring Cache Coordination
• About Explicit Query Refreshes
• About Cache Indexes
• Database Event Notification and Oracle CQN
  • Oracle Continuous Query Notification
• About Query Results Cache
• About Cache Coordination
  • When to Use Cache Coordination
• Clustering and Cache Coordination
  • Coordinating JMS and RMI Caches
  • Coordinating Custom Caches
• Clustering and Cache Consistency
• Cache Interceptors

9 Understanding Queries

• Query Concepts
  • Call Objects
  • DatabaseQuery Objects
  • Data-Level and Object-Level Queries
  • Summary Queries
  • Descriptor Query Manager
  • Query Keys
• About JPQL Queries
  • EclipseLink Extensions to JPQL
  • EclipseLink Special Operators in JPQL
• About SQL Query Language
  • Stored Procedures
    • EclipseLink Extensions to Stored Procedures
• About the Criteria API
  • EclipseLink Extensions to the Criteria API
• About Native SQL Queries
  • EclipseLink Extensions to Native Query Support
• About Query Hints
  • JPA Cache Query Hints
  • EclipseLink Extensions to Cache Query Hints
• About Query Casting
  • EclipseLink Expression Support for Downcasting
• About Oracle Extensions for Queries
  • Query Hints
  • Hierarchical Queries
  • Flashback Queries
  • Stored Functions

10 Understanding EclipseLink Expressions

• About the Expression Framework
• About Expression Components
  • Boolean Logic
  • Database Functions and Operators
    • Oracle XMLType Functions
  • Platform and User-Defined Functions
  • Expressions for One-to-One and Aggregate Object Relationships
  • Expressions for Joining and Complex Relationships
    • About Joins
    • Using EclipseLink Expression API for Joins

11 Understanding Non-relational Data Sources

• NoSQL Platform Concepts
• About NoSQL Persistence Units
  • Persistence Unit Properties for NoSQL Platforms
• About JPA Applications on the NoSQL Platform
  • Mapping Restrictions on JPA Annotations
• About Mapping NoSQL Objects
• About Queries and the NoSQL Platform
• About Transactions and the NoSQL Platform

A Database and Application Server Support

• Database Support
• Application Server Support
  • EclipseLink MOXy as the JAXB Provider for Application Servers
• Non-SQL Standard Database Support: NoSQL