Description

While object-oriented programming and high-performance databases are now mainstream, programmers continue to struggle with persistent storage of objects. Juggling object persistence with requirements for simplicity, flexibility, maintainability, transparency and scalability can rattle even the
most hardened architect. Especially, in today's Internet-driven multi tier Java applications, the approach to managing persistent data has been key design decision. This paper examines and does comparative study on Object-relational mapping technologies for Java. Criteria for comparative analysis has been defined and study been done on JDBC, ORM frameworks: Hibernate, JPOX JDO and ODBMS db4o
using an example application. This paper will prove useful for persons who are looking to adapt a persistent strategy for Java application's.