Foreword

When I first heard about Java Data Objects' (JDO) development back in 2000, I was absolutely thrilled. I was thrilled that the Java industry would finally have a standard and easy way to transparently persist object models. I saw JDO not just as a tool to solve the problem of persistence but also as a catalyst that would encourage Java projects to adopt object-oriented development paradigms.

I began my own career in enterprise development in 1998. Prior to that, I read some great books that set my first impressions of how large-scale systems should be designed. Reading books like Peter Coad's Java Design, Scott Ambler's Building Object Applications That Work, and then being lucky enough to have friends who were from a Smalltalk and Gemstone ...

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