Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 Published in July 2006, the best selling book Mastering EJB is now in its fourth edition and has been updated for EJB 3.0. This edition features chapters on session ...

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 ...

Like it or not, data is an integral part of any application, even cool object-oriented ones. Everything stops at the persistence layer, where Java developers traditionally have had to write complex ...

The Java Persistence Architecture, a part of the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (EJB 3.0) specification, simplified the development of EJB applications using data persistence. A major simplification was the ...