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Master the New Persistence Paradigm with JPA

bject/relational mapping (ORM)?in other words, persisting Java objects to a relational database?has become a major topic recently, thanks, in part, to a proliferation of advanced methods that attempt to make

SQL Simplicity for Java Value Mapping

ava does not have a convenient way to treat a function as an object and then pass it around, but suppose it could. Say a function were an implementation of

Exploring Geronimo’s GBean Framework

eronimo is built around an Inversion of Control (IoC) kernel that consumes and manages components called GBeans. The GBean framework is the vehicle by which new behaviors are added to

The POJO Container: POJO Clustering at the JVM Level

he current enterprise Java stack contains facilities for clustering the application server and application frameworks. To the consternation of enterprise Java developers, and consequently, to operators, application state objects lack

Go Inside the Java Real-Time System

he Sun Java Real-Time System (Java RTS) is the first conformant commercial implementation of Java Specification Request (JSR) -001, the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ). Although initially released in 2002,

Prevent Stale DB Connections with the Latest OC4J

hen building a large-scale J2EE/Java EE application, developers have a few options for establishing database (DB) connectivity from EJBs, including handling it transparently using a J2EE data source, or encapsulating