Chapter 12. Object-Relational Mapping and Java Data Objects
The major premise of this book is that when we design an application in Java, we often find that we need to rely on a relational database in order to store our data. In fact, the majority of business applications are nothing more than a user interface for maintaining data stored in a database.
Throughout this book, we've explored a number of approaches to the problem of using data in the object-oriented environment of Java that we retrieve and store in a relational database.
At one end of the spectrum of approaches is direct database access from Java classes, where we embed relational queries using SQL in our Java code, and map the data to Java objects on an ad-hoc basis (or consume ...
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