Part I Development Tasks and Tools
1. Setting Up a Development Environment
Part II Developing Applications and Application Components
6. Using the Java Persistence API
Primary Key Generation Defaults
Changing the Persistence Provider
Restrictions and Optimizations
Using @OrderBy with a Shared Session Cache
Using BLOB or CLOB Types with the Inet Oraxo JDBC Driver
Named Native Queries and JDBC Queries
7. Developing Web Applications
8. Using Enterprise JavaBeans Technology
9. Using Container-Managed Persistence
12. Developing Lifecycle Listeners
13. Developing OSGi-enabled Java EE Applications
Part III Using Services and APIs
14. Using the JDBC API for Database Access
15. Using the Transaction Service
16. Using the Java Naming and Directory Interface
If you are using the default persistence provider, you can specify in the persistence.xml file the database properties listed at How to Use EclipseLink JPA Extensions for JDBC Connection Communication.
For schema generation properties, see Generation Options. For query hints, see Query Hints.