Persistence is one of the greatest challenges for building applications. There are many options for building persistence layers. Data Access Objects (DAO) is a popular design pattern for building the ...

June 7, 2001— Experienced Java developers are expected to have a collection of design patterns in their toolbox. Sun’s certification exam for Java architects already explicitly tests for knowledge of ...

Search serves the purpose of retrieving a view or list of already persisted instances of business objects for a business scenario. For example, in a bank account system, a typical search would be, ...