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Prior to the introduction of the Java Persistence API, no single persistence standard was available for both the Java SE and Java EE environments. Introduced as a part of Java EE 5, the Java ...

I urge our readers to have a look at the “Vietnam of Computer Science” by Ted Neward, which compares the quagmire of the Vietnam War to the current quagmire that results from our attempts to blend ...

Why Data Mapping Is a Critical Exercise for Corporate Legal Departments Data mapping is the process of figuring out what information a company gathers, where it is kept and how it moves across the ...

Database normalization is the cornerstone of database theory. Once a database is normalized, relationships between the data in multiple tables must be established. A hefty part of designing a ...

Software architects face an important technical problem when they must decide how to best interact with backend database systems. The decision often comes down to the Hibernate vs. JDBC debate, as the ...

You can't have a successful data migration if you don't map it out from the start. Learn what data mapping is and why it's an important early step in data migration ...