By Yong Mook Kim
Currently my company is using “IBATIS” and pure “SQL”s as database persistence mechanism. I like SQL query very much, especially in tuning, but i just do not like code all SQL query in Java application, it’s easy hit typo error and what a stupid and tedious job? I decided to propose a [...]

By Pinaki Mukherjee
The Hibernate advantage over JDBC
Concurrency Support
In JDBC there is no check that always every user has updated data this check has to be added by the developer. Hibernate maintains this concurrency check using a version field.It checks this version field in the database table before every update operation.
So, if two users retrieve data [...]

By Billy Perez
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time dealing with legacy code that, for whatever reason, does not take advantage of modern methodologies and libraries. I’ve taken over Java projects that contain hundreds of thousands of lines of code and not a single third-party jar other than a JDBC driver! One [...]

by Deep Raj
Before we start any discussion about Persistence technologies, we need to understand what exactly it is in computer science. In simple terms ability to retain data structures between various program executions. A perfect example of this would be a word processor saving undo history. In practice, this is achieved by storing the data [...]