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| Transaction Association |
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| Entity Lifecycle Management |
| </a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="jpa_overview_em_lifeexamples.html">3. |
| Lifecycle Examples |
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| Entity Identity Management |
| </a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="jpa_overview_em_cache.html">5. |
| Cache Management |
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| Query Factory |
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| Closing |
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| The diagram above presents an overview of the <code class="classname">EntityManager |
| </code> interface. For a complete treatment of the <code class="classname"> |
| EntityManager</code> API, see the |
| <a xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" href="http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/persistence/EntityManager.html" target="_top"> |
| Javadoc</a> documentation. Methods whose parameter signatures consist of |
| an ellipsis (...) are overloaded to take multiple parameter types. |
| </p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p> |
| OpenJPA extends the standard <code class="classname">EntityManager</code> interface with |
| the |
| <a xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" href="../javadoc/org/apache/openjpa/persistence/OpenJPAEntityManager.html" target="_top"> |
| <code class="classname">org.apache.openjpa.persistence.OpenJPAEntityManager</code> |
| </a> interface to provide additional functionality. |
| </p></div><p> |
| The <code class="classname">EntityManager</code> is the primary interface used by |
| application developers to interact with the JPA runtime. The methods |
| of the <code class="classname">EntityManager</code> can be divided into the following |
| functional categories: |
| </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p> |
| <code class="classname">Transaction</code> association. |
| </p></li><li><p> |
| Entity lifecycle management. |
| </p></li><li><p> |
| Entity identity management. |
| </p></li><li><p> |
| Cache management. |
| </p></li><li><p> |
| <code class="classname">Query</code> factory. |
| </p></li><li><p> |
| Closing. |
| </p></li></ul></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="jpa_overview_em_trans"></a>1. |
| Transaction Association |
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| public EntityTransaction getTransaction (); |
| </pre><p> |
| Every <code class="classname">EntityManager</code> has a one-to-one relation with an |
| <a href="jpa_overview_trans.html" title="Chapter 9. Transaction"><code class="classname">EntityTransaction</code> |
| </a> instance. In fact, many vendors use a single class to implement both the |
| <code class="classname">EntityManager</code> and <code class="classname">EntityTransaction |
| </code> interfaces. If your application requires multiple concurrent |
| transactions, you will use multiple <code class="classname">EntityManager</code>s. |
| </p><p> |
| You can retrieve the <code class="classname">EntityTransaction</code> associated with an |
| <code class="classname">EntityManager</code> through the <code class="methodname">getTransaction |
| </code> method. Note that most JPA implementations can |
| integrate with an application server's managed transactions. If you take |
| advantage of this feature, you will control transactions by declarative |
| demarcation or through the Java Transaction API (JTA) rather than through the |
| <code class="classname">EntityTransaction</code>. |
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