Busy Developer's Guide to db4o
Tired of writing object-table mappings? For years, Java developers have wrestled with the problems of storing objects into relational format and retrieving them back again; for all that Hibernate and JDO and other O/R tools make it easier (though not easy) to do, isn't there another way? In this presentation, we'll explore an alternative approach, real object persistence, using the db4o toolkit (www.db4objects.com).
We'll build a small object model, store a few objects, retrieve them using the different retrieval APIs db4o provides, and talk about the implications of object (as opposed to object/relational) persistence. We'll also talk about its applicability (and the drawbacks) in the larger world of enterprise applications, as well as its suitability for agile apps and mobile device apps.
