Object-relational mapping represents the future of how Java developers interact with a database, Greene said. “It’s much easier than the old way of doing things, involving a much lower-level ...

At the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich, Markus Kett presented a database alternative for Java: the in-memory EclipseStore promises faster data processing with lower cloud costs. It stores Java objects as ...

IBM also is planning to release a Type4JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) driver compliant with J2EE (Java 2, Enterprise Edition) 1.4 to work with Stinger and other versions of DB2.