Any JDO-enabled application will require at least one PersistenceManagerFactory . Typically applications create one per datastore being utilised. A PersistenceManagerFactory provides access to PersistenceManager s which allow objects to be persisted, and retrieved. The PersistenceManagerFactory can be configured to provide particular behaviour.

The simplest way of creating a PersistenceManagerFactory is as follows

Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.setProperty("javax.jdo.PersistenceManagerFactoryClass",
                "org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory");
properties.setProperty("javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName","com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
properties.setProperty("javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL","jdbc:mysql://localhost/myDB");
properties.setProperty("javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName","login");
properties.setProperty("javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword","password");
PersistenceManagerFactory pmf = JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory(properties);

A slight variation on this, is to use a file to specify these properties like this

javax.jdo.PersistenceManagerFactoryClass=org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL=jdbc:mysql://localhost/myDB
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName=login
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword=password

and then to create the PersistenceManagerFactory using this file

File propsFile = new File(filename);
PersistenceManagerFactory pmf = JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory(propsFile);

Another alternative would be to call JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory(jndiLocation, context); , hence accessing the properties via JNDI.

A PersistenceManagerFactory is designed to be thread-safe. A PersistenceManager is not

Whichever way we wish to obtain the PersistenceManagerFactory we have defined a series of properties to give the behaviour of the PersistenceManagerFactory . The first property specifies to use the DataNucleus implementation, and the following 4 properties define the datastore that it should connect to. There are many properties available. Some of these are standard JDO properties, and some are DataNucleus extensions.

JDO Persistence Properties

Name	Values	Description
javax.jdo.PersistenceManagerFactoryClass		The name of the PMF implementation. org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory Only required if you have more than one JDO implementation in the CLASSPATH.
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionFactory		Alias for datanucleus.ConnectionFactory
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionFactory2		Alias for datanucleus.ConnectionFactory2
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionFactoryName		Alias for datanucleus.ConnectionFactoryName
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionFactory2Name		Alias for datanucleus.ConnectionFactory2Name
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName		Alias for datanucleus.ConnectionDriverName
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL		Alias for datanucleus.ConnectionURL
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName		Alias for datanucleus.ConnectionUserName
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword		Alias for datanucleus.ConnectionPassword
javax.jdo.option.IgnoreCache	true | false	Alias for datanucleus.IgnoreCache
javax.jdo.option.Multithreaded	true | false	Alias for datanucleus.Multithreaded
javax.jdo.option.NontransactionalRead	false | true	Alias for datanucleus.NontransactionalRead
javax.jdo.option.NontransactionalWrite	false | true	Alias for datanucleus.NontransactionalWrite
javax.jdo.option.Optimistic	true | false	Alias for datanucleus.Optimistic
javax.jdo.option.RetainValues	true | false	Alias for datanucleus.RetainValues
javax.jdo.option.RestoreValues	true | false	Alias for datanucleus.RestoreValues
javax.jdo.option.Mapping		Alias for datanucleus.Mapping RDBMS datastores only
javax.jdo.mapping.Catalog		Alias for datanucleus.Catalog RDBMS datastores only
javax.jdo.mapping.Schema		Alias for datanucleus.Schema RDBMS datastores only
javax.jdo.option.DetachAllOnCommit	true | false	Alias for datanucleus.DetachAllOnCommit
javax.jdo.option.TransactionType		Alias for datanucleus.TransactionType This is new in JDO2.1
javax.jdo.option.PersistenceUnitName		Alias for datanucleus.PersistenceUnitName This is new in JDO2.1
javax.jdo.option.ServerTimeZoneID		Alias for datanucleus.ServerTimeZoneID This is new in JDO2.1
javax.jdo.option.Name		Name of the PMF to use. This is for use with "named PMF" functionality in JDO 2.1 referring to a PMF defined in "jdoconfig.xml".
javax.jdo.option.CopyOnAttach	true | false	Alias for datanucleus.CopyOnAttach This is new in JDO2.1
javax.jdo.option.ReadOnly	true | false	Alias for datanucleus.readOnlyDatastore This is new in JDO2.2
javax.jdo.option.TransactionIsolationLevel		Alias for datanucleus.transactionIsolation This is new in JDO2.2
javax.jdo.option.DatastoreReadTimeoutMillis		Alias for datanucleus.datastoreReadTimeout This is new in JDO2.3
javax.jdo.option.DatastoreWriteTimeoutMillis		Alias for datanucleus.datastoreWriteTimeout This is new in JDO2.3

DataNucleus provides many properties to extend the control that JDO gives you. These can be used alongside the above standard JDO properties, but will only work with DataNucleus. Please consult the Persistence Properties Guide for full details.