Chapter 7. Architecture Scenarios

“I call architecture frozen music.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This chapter outlines the different types of application architectures that can be used with JDO, beyond the standalone, single-threaded Java applications that have been the focus of the book up to this point. Using JDO with these different architectures is not very different from using JDO to build a standalone application. The concepts and APIs are all the same. The only difference is how PersistenceManagerFactory, PersistenceManager and Transaction instances are used.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • When to use JDO, and when to use JDBC

  • The different types of datastores that can be used with JDO

  • Using JDO with multi-tier applications ...

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