# Tasks

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

- Creating a new JPA project

- Creating a JPA Entity

- Managing the persistence.xml file

- Managing the orm.xml file

- Adding persistence to a class

- Specifying additional tables

- Specifying entity inheritance

- Mapping an entity

- Generating entities from tables

- Validating mappings and reporting problems

- Modifying persistent project properties