13. Database Access
A database provides persistent storage for application data and is a critical part of many applications. Java has excellent support for accessing a relational database through the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API.
If your application has anything but a very simple data model with limited database access requirements, you might want to strongly consider using a database framework instead of writing directly to the JDBC API. The standard persistence framework for enterprise applications is the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) framework. EJB is a part of the Java Enterprise Edition. EJB is considered to be overly complex by many Java developers, and thus open source alternatives are also becoming very popular. The complexity ...
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