# Tasks

This section includes detailed step-by-step procedures for accessing the Dali OR mapping tool functionality.

- Adding persistence to a Java project

- Managing the persistence.xml file

- Adding persistence to a class

- Creating a new Java persistent entity

- Specifying entity inheritance

- Mapping an entity

- Generating entities from tables

- Generating tables (DDL scripts) from entities

- Validating mappings and reporting problems

- Modifying persistent project properties