Java Persistence for Relational Databases

Description

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xxv All Kinds of Methods for Persisting Objects....Pages 1-16 Understanding Relational Database Management Systems....Pages 17-33 Using JDBC 1 for Relational Database Work....Pages 35-61 What Is New in JDBC 2 and 3....Pages 63-79 Writing a Persistence Layer....Pages 81-98 Persistence-Related Design Patterns....Pages 99-122 Unit Testing Persistence Layers....Pages 123-137 Enterprise JavaBeans: Container Managed Persistence 2.0....Pages 139-173 Writing to the ODMG 3.0....Pages 175-190 Persistence with Java Data Objects (JDO)....Pages 191-217 Open Source Java Persistence Libraries and Frameworks....Pages 219-266 Commercial Java Persistence Libraries and Frameworks....Pages 267-306 Summary....Pages 307-318 Back Matter....Pages 319-337