Documentation for eclipse persistence services project, more commonly known as eclipselink, that is a java comprehensive persistence framework delivering a set of persistence services based around standards. this lets you rapidly build applications that combine the best aspects of object technology and the specific data source.

eclipselink was started by a donation of the full source code and test suites of oracle's toplink product.

eclipselink's services currently include object-relational with jpa, object-xml binding in moxy (with support for jaxb), a service data objects (sdo) implementation and support for another technologies like: database web services (dws), xml-relational (xrm) and non-relational (eis via jca).