The need to persist data created at runtime is as old as computing. And the need to store object-oriented data cropped up when object-oriented programming became pervasive. Currently, most modern, ...

The majority of the business applications written using the Java programming language include external data of some type or another. Typically, a programmer will use techniques, such as Java Database ...

O’Reilly has announced the release of “Java Data Objects” (US$39.95), co-authored by David Jordan and Craig Russell. Java Data Objects (JDO) allows Java developers to manage data without any ...

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Object-oriented systems are usually partitioned into layers of related responsibilities and only dependencies in one direction are allowed, from higher layers (more specific, less reusable) to lower ...

In Part 1, I provided an overview of available persistence mechanisms and their implementations, and introduced the Java Data Objects (JDO) approach to persistence. In Part 2, I conclude this series ...