What is Persistence Context?

Question

I am new to the Java world and JPA. I was studying JPA and came across many new terms like Entity, persistence. While reading, I could not understand the exact definition fo

Answer 1

1. Entities are managed by javax.persistence.EntityManager instance using persistence context.
2. Each EntityManager instance is associated with a persistence context.
3. Within the persistence context, the entity instances and their lifecycle are managed.
4. Persistence context defines a scope under which particular entity instances are created, persisted, and removed.
5. A persistence context is like a cache which contains a set of persistent entities , So once the transaction is finished, all persistent objects are detached from the EntityManager's persistence context and are no longer managed.