8. Retrieving Properties Information
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## 8. Retrieving Properties Information

There are two sets of properties that may be specified: those that are specific to OpenJPA and those that have been defined by the JPA specification. In some cases, two properties may be equivalent, but have different keys. For example, openjpa.LockTimeout and javax.persistence.lock.timeout are two different keys for the same property.

There are two methods that can be used to retrieve information related to properties:

    public Map<String,Object> getProperties();
    public Set<String> getSupportedProperties();

- `getProperties` - Provides a list of current properties. If a property has more than one key, the key that will be returned is the one that was used when the property was set. If the property was not explicitly set, the key defined by the JPA specification will be returned with the default value.

- `getSupportedProperties` - Returns a set of supported property keys. This includes keys defined by the JPA specification as well as keys specific to OpenJPA. If a property has more than one key, all possible keys will be returned.

### Note

The `getSupportedProperties` method is an OpenJPA extension to the JPA specification.

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