JPA-based applications can't connect to a database on their own. Rather, they need help in terms of what credentials to use, which schema to seek, which JDBC driver to select and which annotated ...

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The Perst open-source project is available as a free download, though a licence must be purchased for commercial or closed-source products. The object-oriented database comes in Java and C# versions.