This project is the sample code for the article Introduction to JPA available here:

This is a Maven project and can be compiled on any computer that has JDK 7 and Maven installed.

The project is using Java 1.7 and can be built using Maven. It is using both JDBC and JPA connectivity to perform database operations. All dependencies are declared in the pom.xml file and can be built using Maven with no changes. The project is using a SQLite database to store data. The JPA provider for this project is EclipseLink.

• JDK 7
• Maven

If you're using Mac OS X Java can be installed from Software Update which will also install Maven

Run the following command in your command prompt from the project directory:

mvn clean package

Go into the newly created target directory and execute the examples application (introduction-to-jpa-1.0.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar). It takes a required command line argument to specify which example (JDBC or JPA) to run.

Issue one of the following commands from your command line:

• To run the JDBC example: java -jar introduction-to-jpa-runner.jar jdbc
• To run the JPA example: java -jar introduction-to-jpa-runner.jar jpa

Hint: on Windows you have to use java.exe

The application will create a new file in the current directory called sample.db This is a SQLite file that can be opened by any SQLite database manager application if you want to check the newly created database.