Java Persistence for Relational Databases

by Richard Sperko

Overview

Java Persistence for Relational Databases is chock full of best practices and patterns, for those of you who want to connect to databases using Java! Coverage includes various database-related APIs for Java, like JDO, JDBC (including the newest 3.0 APIs), and CMP (“Container Managed Persistence” with EJB).

All those things you developers have wanted to know—but were afraid to ask—are featured inside this book. It offers a realistic and multi-angled look at persisting Java objects. Whether your environment requires you to use JDO, CMP, Castor, or to hand-code a persistence layer using JDBC, the answers all lie inside this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590590713
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	07/02/2003
Series:	Books for Professionals by Professionals
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.26(d)

About the Author

Richard Sperko is an architect-level consultant for Centare Group, Ltd. Richard has 11 years of software development experience and has been working with emerging technologies that entire time. He has extensive knowledge in Java/J2EE and other object-oriented technologies. He is certified as a Sun Microsystems Java Developer and working on his Sun Microsystems Java Architect and Microsoft Certified Application Developer certifications. He spends as much time as he can with his lovely wife and beautiful son.

Table of Contents

1 All Kinds of Methods for Persisting Objects.- 2 Understanding Relational Database Management Systems.- 3 Using JDBC 1 for Relational Database Work.- 4 What Is New in JDBC 2 and 3.- 5 Writing a Persistence Layer.- 6 Persistence-Related Design Patterns.- 7 Unit Testing Persistence Layers.- 8 Enterprise JavaBeans: Container Managed Persistence 2.0.- 9 Writing to the ODMG 3.0.- 10 Persistence with Java Data Objects (JDO).- 11 Open Source Java Persistence Libraries and Frameworks.- 12 Commercial Java Persistence Libraries and Frameworks.- 13 Summary.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"Richard Sperko’s Java Persistence for Relational Databases does an admirable job of outlining the problems and of explaining what the different solutions have to offer. … In addition, the book provides good coverage of EJB, JDO … . In all this is a highly accessible, wide-ranging and interesting introduction to object persistence and Java." (Application Development Advisor, November/December, 2003)

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