Glossary

ACID

Atomic, Consistent, Isolated and Durable – properties of a transaction

aggregate functions

Functions which can be used as part of a query and which generate a result based on the application of that function across the query results; currently unavailable in JDOQL

API

Application programming interface – programming interface used by the application developer, as opposed to the service provider.

application exception

An exception defined by the application developer, as opposed to the standard JDO exceptions present in the javax.jdo package

application identity

A JDO identity type whereby the identity of an instance is determined by the value of its so-called primary key fields

bean class (EJB)

One of the classes that ...

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