The Java language and platform offers a vast range of options when it comes to working with relational data, from raw JDBC to fully blown Object/Relational mapping (ORM) tools.

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 ...

Brian C. Dilley covers pitfalls, & strengths of using MongoDB ("a very approachable NoSQL solution"), and introduces MJORM. The MJORM project is an annotation free MongoDB Java ORM library. This ...