SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Industry panelists here Tuesday debated issues surrounding support of complex object models in J2EE Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), deemed critical to object persistence and mapping ...

Released in 1995, the philosophy behind Java is "write once, run anywhere." In other words, a program written in Java can theoretically run on any machine that supports it. While the implementation ...

The Jakarta Persistence API (JPA) is a specification that defines a standardized framework for data persistence. Persistence is the fundamental mechanism for saving and retrieving data over time. In ...

You might know that Java passes by value, but it helps to understand why. Here's what happens when you pass mutable and immutable object references in Java. Many programming languages allow passing ...

Versant has enhanced Java support, including an Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 application programming interface, in the new version of its object database. The Object Database 7.0 features a preview of the ...