The legend of the Tower of Babel depicts the fact that humans lost the ability to speak a common language and began to use different dialects, making communication between them far more difficult.

Object-oriented (OO) practices within thesoftware-development community are evolving rapidly.Experimentation and adoption of new techniques and processes arestandard fare in most organizations.

Like it or not, data is an integral part of any application, even cool object-oriented ones. Everything stops at the persistence layer, where Java developers traditionally have had to write complex ...