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 ...

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Fresher Information Corp. has made a number of moves in past months that position it to expand in a specialized segment of the database industry. San Francisco-based Fresher was founded in December ...

OK, I'm coming up soon on a few small to medium intranet/web site projects where we want to branch out from what we've been using to do object-relational mapping (don't ask; it sucks and you've never ...

An ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tool is one that is used to abstract the data access logic of your application. You can use ORM to bridge the apparent mismatch between the data and the object ...

Hot on the heels of Oracle’s recent announcement of its proposed Eclipse project to support the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 specification, Versant, a data management company, has proposed an ...

A challenge when developing applications that use object-relational mapping (ORM) like Hibernate and JPA, a common approach is to list each @Entity decorated Java class programmatically either in the ...

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With so many benefits and drawbacks to using either the Hibernate Session or the JPA EntityManager for performing object relational mapping, it is no wonder why enterprise architects have such a ...