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Nils
Nils

Reputation: 13767

JPA w/o application server

I'm just writing a small java application and I would like to be able to persist the data model in a database. So I was wondering if I could use JPA for this. I used JPA some time ago, but as far as I remembered it required an application server. So I'm wondering can I just JPA to persists my classes w/o using an application server.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3273

Answers (5)

Boris Pavlović
Boris Pavlović

Reputation: 64632

Yes, you can use JPA without an application server. Here's a tutorial which may help you: TopLink JPA: How to use JPA with Java SE

Upvotes: 2

Carl Smotricz
Carl Smotricz

Reputation: 67760

JPA is, umm, "traditionally" associated with application servers because JPA is part of the Java EE spec. However, that doesn't mean individual implementations of JPA can't work outside of an app server.

I've personally done this with Hibernate, which is perhaps the most popular JPA implementation. The Hibernate documentation gives you some tips about how to run Hibernate in a standalone application.

Upvotes: 2

DataNucleus
DataNucleus

Reputation: 15577

No J2EE server present in this tutorial http://www.datanucleus.org/products/accessplatform/guides/jpa/tutorial.html

Upvotes: 0

Robert Watkins
Robert Watkins

Reputation: 2206

You're probably better off using Hibernate standalone; it's a bit easier to manage without the extra JPA layer on top. There isn't that much difference anyway.

Upvotes: 0

Petar Minchev
Petar Minchev

Reputation: 47373

Yes, you can use JPA without any application server. Look at section 2.4 in this tutorial for Hibernate.

Upvotes: 2

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