Audience

JDO is a new technology, but it is one that holds great promise. If you are an architect, a developer, or even a manager who is involved with persistence in Java and would like to gain an insight into this technology, then this book is for you.

The driving goal of this author team is to combine their wealth of experience into a single accessible and unified resource and give the community a definitive and authoritative source to turn to for JDO technology. The team strives to provide leading edge and practical examples that illustrate how JDO can be applied to existing applications and new architecture initiatives so that readers can have a clear perspective of this new technology. We hope that professionals using Java in any measure, from simple programs to complex enterprise applications, find this book valuable . Where additional detail is required, this book provides the stepping-stone and points out additional sources of information.

In keeping with the vision of Java itself, this book attempts to stay vendor- and platform-neutral. Possible implementation strategies may be discussed occasionally, but the goal of the author team is not to discuss intricate details, recommend, or push any specific vendor product.