This feature enables support for applications that use application-managed and container-managed JPA. This feature only includes Java Persistence API 2.1 specification interfaces and container-managed JPA integration. This feature does not include a JPA provider implementation.

Enabling this feature

To enable the Java Persistence API Container 2.1 feature, add the following element declaration into your server.xml file, inside the featureManager element:

<feature>jpaContainer-2.1</feature>

Feature configuration elements

Standard API packages provided by this feature

  • javax.activation

  • javax.persistence

  • javax.persistence.criteria

  • javax.persistence.metamodel

  • javax.persistence.spi

  • javax.xml.bind

  • javax.xml.bind.annotation

  • javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters

  • javax.xml.bind.attachment

  • javax.xml.bind.helpers

  • javax.xml.bind.util

Features that this feature enables

Supported Java versions

  • JavaSE-1.8

  • JavaSE-11.0

  • JavaSE-17.0

  • JavaSE-21.0

  • JavaSE-22.0

Features that enable this feature

Developing a feature that depends on this feature

If you are developing a feature that depends on this feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in your feature manifest file.

com.ibm.websphere.appserver.jpaContainer-2.1; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"