4.4. Conclusions
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## 4.4. Conclusions

This chapter covered everything you need to know to write persistent class definitions in JPA. JPA cannot use your persistent classes, however, until you complete one additional step: you must define the persistence metadata. The next chapter explores metadata in detail.

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