Jeanne reviewed Persistence in the Enterprise by Kyle Brown and Roland Barcia and gave it 8 out of 10 horseshoes.

[The book] helps architects pick the right persistence technology for JEE applications. ... The persistence technologies evaluated are JDBC, iBatis, Hibernate Core (not the JPA implementation), Apache Open JPA and IBM's Pure Query. ... The stated goals of the book are to provide an end to end view of choosing a persistence technology and help clients exploit the WebSphere product suite. These dual goals worked well for them. ... The authors go into a lot of detail describing the criteria used for evaluating and comparing. ... Overall, this book is a good value if you are choosing a persistence technology. It saves countless hours of time in research and analysis.

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