Types of EntityManagers -- Application-managed EntityManager

JPA specification defines few types of EntityManagers / Persistence Contexts. We can have: extended and transactional-scoped EntityManagers, container-managed or application-managed EntityManagers. JTA or resource-local EntityManager, Besides the above distinction, we also have two main contexts in which EntityManager / Persistence Context can exist – Java EE and Java SE. Not every option is available for Java EE and not every is possible in Java SE. In the rest of the post I refer to the Java EE environment....

November 21, 2012 · 9 min