The .NET Persistence API, also referred to as NPA, is a persistence and object-relational mapping (ORM) specification for the .NET framework.
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NPA is based on the Java Persistence API (JPA), which is the standard persistence API in the Java world. NPA follows JPA by providing a complete persistence API and a rich set of ORM features.
Motivation
The main purposes of the .NET Persistence API (NPA) are:
Technology
The main features of NPA include:
Implementations
NPA is a persistence specification. To use NPA an implementation of the specification is required. Persistence and ORM vendors can provide their own implementations of NPA.
First implementation, NPA for NHibernate, was released in December 2011.
References
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