Preface
The need for persistence is a prerequisite for any enterprise application, and the case is no different for applications written in the Java programming language. A chunk of any typical Java application consists of code that is responsible for storing and retrieving the application-specific data to some type of storage facility so that it can be retrieved and used at a later time.
Java is an object-oriented language, and developers inherently work with objects that, at any time, have states represented by member fields. From the developers perspective, persistence focuses on taking the application-specific information assets, which in fact is just state in these objects, and making them available beyond the lifetime of the virtual machine ...
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