This JavaPosse interview taken at Devoxx takes a closer look at the Java Persistence API (JPA) with co-lead of JSR-220 Mike Keith. After the introduction more in depth questions are tackled for example how OSGi can be used with JPA and how what to do with legacy systems.
Mike Keith is an architect at Oracle and has close to 20 years of experience as a practitioner and mentor of distributed systems and persistence. He co-lead JSR-220, the JCP expert group that created EJB 3.0 and JPA 1.0 and co-authored the first book devoted to JPA called "Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API". He sits on a number of technology expert groups and committees, including JSR-317 working on JPA 2.0, and the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group that is developing OSGi specifications for enterprise applications.
