Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.16.MISMATCH!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe02.iad.POSTED!8ad76e89!not-for-mail From: Arved Sandstrom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.21) Gecko/20110831 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Persistence API - magic? References: <7e3a3be9-8960-4b94-8028-2da962435fc8@u6g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <95fd9fd8-b87b-4c81-9331-9b0a252734b5@o15g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <95fd9fd8-b87b-4c81-9331-9b0a252734b5@o15g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 34 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsgroups-download.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:34:48 UTC Organization: Public Usenet Newsgroup Access Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:34:47 -0300 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7689 On 11-09-07 11:56 AM, nroberts wrote: > On Sep 6, 5:40 pm, Arved Sandstrom > wrote: >> On 11-09-06 07:52 PM, nroberts wrote: >> >>> I'm a little confused about how and why the persistence API is even >>> being used, let alone how it works, in this tutorial I just went >>> through. >> >>> I followed the instructions in this tutorial: >>> http://programming.manessinger.com/tutorials/an-eclipse-glassfish-jav... >> >> I won't discourage you from trying out Java EE 6, but it's a big jump up >> from what you're able to do with JBoss 4. I expect you knew that. >> >> Looking at this particular tutorial, my recommendation is, stick with >> the Java EE tutorial, > > I have not found the tutorial very helpful. It's not very tutorial > like. It just has a bunch of words without many examples and never > seems to get to the meat of things. This particular question does not > appear to be answered there for example. Perhaps it is, somewhere in > all that, but I couldn't find it. > > The other tutorials actually show me how to get things done. Most of > it is quite straight forward. Where they glaze things over and I > can't figure it out on my own, I look for other resources and when I > can't find my answer I ask. There's a tutorial examples bundles that goes along with the tutorial itself. The very first section has instructions for obtaining the example code, and setting up environments. AHS