TopLink is a peristence framework. It is most commonly used to map java based domain objects to a relational database. It is currently the reference implementation for
JPA (
Toplink Essentials specifically). The
spring framework has built in support for TopLink.
The full version of TopLink has additional features outside of the JPA specification which are of particular interest to users of an Oracle database. For example, it has support/awareness of Virtual Private Database (VPD), proxy connections, Oracle Types and in general can take advantage of oracle specific features more effectively than other JPA implementations.
TopLink 11g also supports object XML mapping (
JAXB),
EIS persistence through
JCA, and
SDO.
Current Release: TopLink 10.1.3
Next Release: TopLink 11g
see also
EclipseLinkDocumentation:Blogs:Links: