Persistence is one of the greatest challenges for building applications. There are many options for building persistence layers. Data Access Objects (DAO) is a popular design pattern for building the ...

EclipseLink Project co-lead Doug Clarke presented the session “Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0 with EclipseLink” presentation today at JavaOne 2010. I am a big fan of JPA, but I’m not going to be able ...

What's the difference between Hibernate vs JPA? That's a common question Java developers dabbling on the database side often ask, right up there with difference between Hibernate and JDBC, or how do ...

Oracle previously released a portion of its TopLink technology to the Java Community Process: Its "TopLink Essentials" open-source software is the reference implementation of the EJB 3.0 Java ...

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Data management has reached another inflection point. A new breed of applications is pushing traditional, mostly relational database management solutions (RDBMS) beyond their limits, driven by an ever ...