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# TopLink Key Features

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TopLink provides an extensive and thorough set of features. Java developers can use these features to rapidly build high-performance enterprise applications that are both scalable and maintainable.

Some of the primary features of TopLink are the following:

- Nonintrusive, flexible, metadata-based architecture (see "Understanding TopLink Metadata")

- Comprehensive visual TopLink Workbench

- Advanced mapping support and flexibility (relational, object-relational, EIS, and XML)

- Object caching support

- Query flexibility

- Just-in-time reading

- Caching

- Object-level transaction support and integration

- Locking

- Multiple performance tuning options

- Architectural flexibility

For additional information, see the TopLink page on OTN:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/index.html