OpenJPA and JPA2.0

Lightweight persistence is the storage and retrieval ofpersistent data with little or nor work from you. JPA recognizestwo ways of persistent classes:entity classess and embeddableclasses. An instance of an embeddable class, on the other hand, isonly stored as part of a separate entity.Embeddable instance haveno persistent identity, and are never returned directly from theEntityManger or from a Query unless the query uses a projection onowning class to the embeddable instance.

It isoften necessary to perform various actions at different stages of apersistent obejct's lifecycle.

The coreincludes code that allows the Drupal system to bootstrap when itreceives a request, a library of common functions frequently usedwith Drupal, and modules that provide basic functionality like usermanagement,taxonomy, and templating.

Hookscan be though of as internal Drupal events. They are also calledcallbacks, but because they are constructed by function-namingconventions and not by registering with alistener.

Thecallback function does whatever work is required to process andaccumulate data needed to fulfill therequest.

OnceWordPress is handed a URL to parse by the web server, it goes towork disassembling the tokens in that URL AND CONVERTING them intoparameters for a database query.

We usedmodule manager to map a custom field between the leads,contacts andpotentials modules. Now when data is entered into the custom field,it will carry through as it is converted into a lead,account andthe contact that is related to theaccount.