This presentation from Oracle's Mike Keith discusses several features of JPA 2.0 such as advanced locking, enhanced query language, a shared cache API, expression/criteria API, property standardization, more flexible object modeling and more advanced O/R mapping support.
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the first version of SML came out to capture all the relevant constraints of complex and composite systems and open the door to “desired-state [...]
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