When it comes to inheritance, relational database theory and object-oriented programming have more in common than you might think. Understanding that overlap is critical in designing the object model ...

When it comes to providing reliable, flexible, and efficient object persistence for software systems, today's designers and architects are faced with many choices. From the technological perspective, ...

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 Java Persistence API was introduced as part of the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 specification in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE). The Java Persistence API draws on ideas from ...