The Java Architecture for XML Binding provides a powerful and practical way of working with XML content from within Java applications. The newly released JAXB 2.0 offers many new features ...

This article provides Java programmers with techniques for utilizing Oracle9i's new object-oriented features such as inheritance, custom constructors, dynamic dispatch, array descriptors, and ...

The long-standing Java versioning strategy of matching the Java platform's branding to the decimal increment of the JDK was always a bit strange, but a developer didn't have to be told twice in order ...

The Java language and platform offers a vast range of options when it comes to working with relational data, from raw JDBC to fully blown Object/Relational mapping (ORM) tools.

Brian C. Dilley covers pitfalls, & strengths of using MongoDB ("a very approachable NoSQL solution"), and introduces MJORM. The MJORM project is an annotation free MongoDB Java ORM library. This ...

The Hibernate API then lets developers decorate their Java code with minimally obtrusive JPA annotations. Said annotations describe how a given Java class and its variables map to a given table and ...