Start by figuring out a design, then proving the design is at least qualitatively superior. While what they've done has issues, the solution to their problem is not likely an ORM.

What's the difference between Hibernate vs JPA? That's a common question Java developers dabbling on the database side often ask, right up there with difference between Hibernate and JDBC, or how do ...

In Part 2, I discuss how EJB 3.0 entity beans leverage POJO and annotations to greatly simplify your data model and its persistence-to-backend relational databases. Before we get into the details of ...

Note: This excerpt is taken from Chapter 4 of POJOs in Action, from Manning Publications. Every six months, Anne-Marie, who is my dental hygienist, gives me the same lecture on the importance of ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. MicroStream 5.0 has arrived… and, now, the Java persistence framework is open source. MicroStream is a ...