Java Persistence Frameworks

A persistence framework is software that assists and automates the connection to the databases, especially relational databases for storage, access or retrieval. Acts as a level of abstraction between the application and the databases. Since Java is an objet-oriented programming language it happens that many frameworks are also object-oriented which enables them to map the application's data and the database's data this is called Object-Relational Mapping(ORM). Many frameworks are ORM tools and use XML and metadata to annotations for their mappings. Examples ;-

• Hibernate
• iBatis SQL Maps
• MyBatis
• Slick
• Ultra-Lite Persistence