A new standard--known as Java Data Objects (JDO)--promises to reduce the Java programming effort required to include corporate data in business applications.

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Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an application program interface (API) packaged with the Java SE edition that makes it possible to standardize and simplify the process of connecting Java ...

Java performance issues are often attributable to bad database access patterns. In this article a top performance field engineer demonstrates his patterns for diagnosing database related issues.

Java developers, with their proficiency in one of the most widely used programming languages, have a wide array of tools at their disposal to tackle the challenges of Big Data.

With all these changes, Java is now on a path towards a more declarative, data-focused programming style with the introduction of nestable record patterns.

Java static code analysis tools such as Checkstyle, FindBugs and others can parse your code to identify potential problems. Java developers should make code analysis a key part of the development ...

Write, build, and run an example application that persists data to and from a relational database using Hibernate, JPA, and the repository pattern.