title: Order of persisted list field on JPA
body: <p>It's feasible for <code>JPA 2.x</code> to persist list-typed field below,</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-java prettyprint-override"><code>@ElementCollection
  private List&lt;String&gt; list;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does <code>JPA 2.x</code> further prescribe to retain the order of the elements in the persisted list after it is queried?</p>