3.1. How Does JDO Work?
The goal of the JDO is to allow a Java application to transparently store instances of any user-defined Java class in a datastore and retrieve them again, with as few limitations as possible. This book refers to the instances that JDO stores and retrieves as persistent objects. From the application perspective, these persistent objects appear as regular, in-memory Java objects. However, the fields of these instances are actually stored in some underlying datastore persistently—all without any explicit action on behalf of the application.
JDO has nothing to do with where methods are executed; it does not provide a means of remote method invocation à la RMI and EJB, nor does it store and execute methods in some datastore. ...
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