2010-04-29 Apache OpenJPA Java Persistence API Implementation Apache OpenJPA is a Java persistence project at The Apache Software Foundation that can be used as a stand-alone POJO persistence layer or integrated into any Java EE compliant container and many other lightweight frameworks, such as Tomcat and Spring. The 1.x releases are a production ready, feature-rich, compliant implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA) 1.0 part of the JSR-220 Enterprise Java Beans 3.0 specification, which pass the Sun JPA 1.0b Technology Compatibility Kit. The 2.x releases are a production ready, compliant implement of the JSR-317 Java Persistence 2.0 specification, which is backwards compatible to the JPA 1.0 specification and passes the Sun JPA 2.0 Technology Compatibility Kit. Java Latest 2.0 release 2010-04-22 2.0.0 Latest 1.2 release 2010-01-18 1.2.2 Latest 1.1 release 2008-05-22 1.1.0 Latest 1.0 release 2008-07-23 1.0.3 Donald Woods Java Persistence API 1.0 JCP JSR 220 Java Persistence API 2.0 JCP JSR 317