Toplink without application server

Question

Is it possible to use Toplink Essentials without application server, just on desktop application?

Answer 1

Yes but for certain behaviour you may have to use the JVM startup options to enable the toplink agent. I believe this is for the lazy loading or something similar.

Do you mean TopLink or TopLink Essentials? The first is a commercial Oracle product. The latter is the reference implementation of JPA 1.0, which is a somewhat cut down version.

Honestly I don't think there's any reason to use anything other than EclipseLink (which will be the JPA 2.0 reference implementation) or Hibernate.

To actually do this:

• Hibernate for Java SE;
• Eclipselink in J2SE RCP Applications; and
• Using the Java Persistence API in Desktop Applications.