Java Persistence for Relational Databases is chock full of best practices and patterns, for those of you who want to connect to databases using Java Coverage includes various database-related APIs for Java, like JDO, JDBC (including the newest 3.0 APIs), and CMP ("Container Managed Persistence" with EJB).

All those things you developers have wanted to know--but were afraid to ask--are featured inside this book. It offers a realistic and multi-angled look at persisting Java objects. Whether your environment requires you to use JDO, CMP, Castor, or to hand-code a persistence...