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Chapter 1. Introduction > The Java Persistence API
1.4. The Java Persistence API
The Java Persistence API is a lightweight, POJO-based framework for Java persistence. Although object-relational mapping is a major component of the API, it also offers solutions to the architectural challenges of integrating persistence into scalable enterprise applications. In the following sections we will look at the evolution of the specification and provide an overview of the major aspects of this technology.
1.4.1. History of the Specification
The Java Persistence API is remarkable not only for what it offers developers but also for the way in which it came to be. The following sections outline the prehistory of object-relational persistence solutions and the genesis of JPA.
