The Java Architecture for XML Binding provides a powerful and practical way of working with XML content from within Java applications. The newly released JAXB 2.0 offers many new features, including ...

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Java Persistence API: A look deeper The Java Persistence API is a lightweight, POJO-based framework for object-relational mapping. The mapping between Java objects and a relational database is ...

OK, I'm coming up soon on a few small to medium intranet/web site projects where we want to branch out from what we've been using to do object-relational mapping (don't ask; it sucks and you've never ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...