• Persistence Contexts
  • Accessing Hibernate APIs from JPA
  • Bytecode Enhancement
  • Making entities persistent
  • Deleting (removing) entities
  • Obtain an entity reference without initializing its data
  • Obtain an entity with its data initialized
  • Obtain an entity by natural-id
  • Modifying managed/persistent state
  • Refresh entity state
  • Working with detached data
  • Checking persistent state
  • Evicting entities
  • Cascading entity state transitions