Use of Hibernate With Java Persistence API

Before we start any discussion about Persistence technologies, we need to understand what exactly Persistence is in computer science. Persistence, in simple terms is the ability to retain data structures between various program executions. A perfect example of this would be a word processor saving undo history. In practice, this is achieved by storing the data in non- volatile storage such as a file system or a relational database or an object database.

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