What is the equivalent of JPA in .NET?

Question

I think JPA is nice and convenient ( not to mention standardising, as we used to have every individual programmer doing his/her own thing with a jdbc connection).

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Answer 1

Isn't JPA just a Java ORM?

.NET has many ORM tools, namely

• ADO Entity Framework
• NHibernate
• Active Record
• LINQ to SQL

and plus my favourite

• LightSpeed