Merrick Schincariol is a senior engineer for the Oracle OC4J Java EE Container. He was a lead engineer for Oracle's EJB 3.0 release and co-author of Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API. Before joining Oracle, Merrick developed enterprise and large-scale systems for the telecomunications industry.
Experience has taught us that it's not enough to simply have a persistence
standard as part of an enterprise specification. It must be a standard that
can solve people's problems and be useful to most of the applications that
want to use it. While earlier versions of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
persistence met some of the needs, they were primarily focused on the
distributed problem domain. It is now known, and has been proven by
successful commercial products like Oracle TopLink and Open Source projects
like JBoss Hibernate, that the objects to be persisted don't have to be
anything more than simple Java objects. The proof was in the popularity of
these Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) tools; most developers have tended to
pick up and use these tools rather than adopt th... (more)
Merrick Schincariol is a senior engineer for the Oracle OC4J Java EE Container. He was a lead engineer for Oracle's EJB 3.0 release and co-author of Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API. Before joining Oracle, Merrick developed enterprise and large-scale systems for the telecomunications industry.
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