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

While @pritam kumar gives a good overview the 5th point is not true.

Persistence Context can be either Transaction Scoped-- the Persistence Context 'lives' for the length of the transaction, or Extended-- the Persistence Context spans multiple transactions.

https://blogs.oracle.com/carolmcdonald/entry/jpa_caching

JPA's EntityManager and Hibernate's Session offer an extended Persistence Context.