Mark, JPA, like any other JSR, is a specification. It has a reference implementation, TopLink for JPA 1.0, as well as other implementations, e.g. Hibernate. For an implementation to be labeled as compliant, it will need to pass the according TCK. You should be able to find out more about all this at the jcp.org website. Hope this helps. Alex
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Kram <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > In episode 236 (and others) I have heard mention of people talking > about different "implementations" of frameworks, like in episode 236 > Steve Harris mentions the "JPA Implementation" the was open sourced. > > What exactly does that mean? Could someone please provide me with some > reading material on this topic? > > Does JPA define some sort of implementation standard that people can > create and officially call it a JPA implementation based on the JPA > standard? Or am I way off track here? > > Thanks, I hope this made sense! > Mark > > > -- Alexander Snaps <[email protected]> http://www.jroller.com/page/greenhorn http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandersnaps --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
