Java Google App Engine: What does @Persistent(valueStrategy = IdGeneratorStrategy.IDENTITY) do/mean?

Question

I just started learning server/database stuff on Java, and I was wondering what the piece of code @Persistent(valueStrategy = IdGeneratorStrategy.IDENTITY) means/does. I am using Google's App Engine

Thanks!

Answer 1

That's a Java annotation defining the strategy the annotated entity will use to be persisted.

It means, that, for instance if you have a class Employee, it will be persistent, and the way its primary key will be generated, will be with a mechanism called IDENTITY which automatically creates the next value for you.

All this part of an API called Java Persistence API