Jon Wetherbee is a consulting engineer and tech lead for EJB development tools on Oracle's JDeveloper IDE. He has over 12 years of experience in development at Oracle, having built a variety of O/R mapping tools and holding responsibility for Oracle's core EJB toolset since EJB 1.1. In 1999, he received a patent for his work on integrating relational databases in an object-oriented environment.
Much of the work surrounding the design and development of enterprise applications involves decisions about how to coordinate the flow of persistent data. This includes when and where to cache data, when to apply it to a persistent store (typically the database), how to resolve simulta...Jan. 28, 2007 03:00 PM EST Reads: 40,033 Replies: 1
The persistence model introduced in EJB 3.0 as a replacement for entity beans is known as the Java Persistence API (JPA). The JPA borrows from both proprietary and open source models, such as Oracle TopLink, Hibernate, Spring, and other frameworks, which have gained traction as popular...
