What You Need to Know First

To make good use of this guide, you should already be familiar with the following:

• The concepts and programming practices of the Java SE platform and the Java EE platform. In the current release, EclipseLink supports Java EE 6. For more information, see the following.

  Java

  • Java home page: http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/java/index.html

  • Java EE 5 Tutorial: http://download.oracle.com/javaee/5/tutorial/doc/bnbpy.html

  • Java EE 6 Tutorial: http://download.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/bnbpy.html

  • Any of the thousands of books and websites devoted to Java.

  Eclipse Integrated Development Environment

  • Eclipse IDE: http://www.eclipse.org/

• EclipseLink from the Eclipse Foundation

  • EclipseLink project home: http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink

  • EclipseLink Documentation Center: https://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/documentation/

• If you are working with EclipseLink JPA, you should be familiar with the concepts and programming practices of JPA 2.0, as specified in the Java Persistence 2.0 specification at http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr317/index.html.

• If you are working with EclipseLink JAXB, you should be familiar with the concepts and programming practices of JAXB 2.0, as specified in the The Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.0 specification at http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=222.

• If you are using JSON data-interchange format, you should be familiar with the concepts and programming practices of JSON, as described at http://www.json.org/. For XML, see http://www.w3.org/XML/

• If you are working with EclipseLink MOXy, you should be familiar with the concepts and programming practices of JAXB 2.0, as specified in the The Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.0 specification at http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=222. If you are using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data-interchange format, you should be familiar with the concepts and programming practices of JSON, as described at http://www.json.org/. For XML, see http://www.w3.org/XML/

• If you are working with EclipseLink DBWS, you should be familiar with the concepts and programming practices of JAX-WS 2.0, as specified in the Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0 specification at http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=224.

• If you are working with REpresentational State Transfer (REST) service, you should be familiar with concepts and programming practices of REST, as specified in "JSR 311: JAX-RS: The Java API for RESTful Web Services" at http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311.