Preface
It’s official! For the last two weeks, the executive committee of JCP has been considering the JDO specification and voting on it. JDO has now been approved as a standard, and as I write these words the first announcements of JDO 1.0 are being made on JavaDataObjects at Yahoo!Groups and on JDOcentral.com.
I believe that JDO will have a profoundly positive impact on the way that we architect, design, and implement Java applications. Conservative improvements of 20% in the development time (and therefore cost) of enterprise applications are being quoted, with some analysts suggesting that the actual savings may be much higher.
Support for the standard is considerable; there is already a significant number of products on the market, most ...
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