Mike Keith has more than 15 years of teaching, research and practical experience in object-oriented and distributed systems, specializing in object persistence. He was the co-specification lead for EJB 3.0 (JSR 220), a member of the Java EE 5 expert group (JSR 244) and co-authored the premier JPA reference book Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API. Mike is currently a persistence architect for Oracle and a popular speaker at numerous conferences and events around the world.
Experience has taught us that it's not enough to simply have a persistence
standard as part of an enterprise specification. It must be a standard that
can solve people's problems and be useful to most of the applications that
want to use it. While earlier versions of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
persistence met some of the needs, they were primarily focused on the
distributed problem domain. It is now known, and has been proven by
successful commercial products like Oracle TopLink and Open Source projects
like JBoss Hibernate, that the objects to be persisted don't have to be
anything more than simple Java objects. The proof was in the popularity of
these Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) tools; most developers have tended to
pick up and use these tools rather than adopt the Java 2 Enterprise Edition
(J2EE) entity bean programming standard.
The problem was that even th... (more)
The EJB 3.0 Java Persistence API (JPA) was released in May 2006 as part of
the Java Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE) platform, and it has already garnered
a great deal of attention and praise. What began as merely an easier-to-use
successor to the much-maligned container-managed persistence (CMP) portion of
the EJB component standard soon evolved into a full-blown incorporation of
the existing best practices of the most prominent and popular
object-relational (O-R) persistence products in use. The result is that
applications now have a modern standard for lightweight enterprise Jav... (more)
Mike Keith has more than 15 years of teaching, research and practical experience in object-oriented and distributed systems, specializing in object persistence. He was the co-specification lead for EJB 3.0 (JSR 220), a member of the Java EE 5 expert group (JSR 244) and co-authored the premier JPA reference book Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API. Mike is currently a persistence architect for Oracle and a popular speaker at numerous conferences and events around the world.
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