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Relational databases hold data, right? They do indeed, but to think of a database as nothing more than a container for data is to miss out on the profound power that underlies relational technology. A far more powerful way of thinking lies in relational technologys foundation in the mathematical disciplines of logic and set theory.

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Practical JBoss(R) Seam Projects, written by renowned author and enterprise Java practitioner Jim Farley, is the first practical projects book of its kind on this groundbreaking open-source lightweight JSF-EJB3 framework.

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