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

A persistent context represents the entities which hold data and are qualified to be persisted in some persistent storage like a database. Once we commit a transaction under a session which has these entities attached with, Hibernate flushes the persistent context and changes(insert/save, update or delete) on them are persisted in the persistent storage.