.NET Persistence API: Difference between revisions

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The '''.NET Persistence API''', also referred to as '''NPA''', is a persistence and [[Object-Relational_Mapping|Object Relational Mapping (ORM)]] specification for the [[.NET_Framework|.NET framework]]. <ref>http://www.npersistence.org/</ref>

NPA is based on the [[Java_Persistence_API|Java Persistence API (JPA)]], which is the standard persistence API in the [[Java (programming language)|JAVAJava]] world. NPA follows JPA by providing a complete persistence API and a rich set of ORM features.<ref>http://www.npersistence.org/faq</ref>

==Motivation==