The Java Persistence API (JPA)is the Java API for the management of persistence and object/relational mapping for Java EE and Java SE environments. The persistence consists of three areas:

• the API, defined in the javax.persistence package
• the Java Persistence Query Language
• object/relational metadata

The purpose of this project proposal is to implement a Connector JPA for BIRT framework, and so able to handle data source from the persistence API. Is so great the importance of the project because JPA is a specification that is being used widely in the development of applications, precisely from the advantages it.

The implementation is to make the JPA ODA driver, extending each one of the interface required in the Data Tools Plataform given in the package org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.oda.

Finalizing it first part will be an improvement approaching also advanced options in regard to the parameters and also will be implemented JPA ODA IU extensions.

More information too, here: http://wiki.eclipse.org/About_:_BIRT_JPA_or_JDO_Connector

Author: V. Alfonso Phocco Diaz vphocco@gmail.com , alfonso7@ime.usp.br National University of San Agustin - Engineer Systems( Computer Science)