5.1. JDO Concepts
Being proficient at using JDO to build applications requires a good understanding of the concepts underlying JDO. Some of these were introduced in previous chapters to varying degrees, and others are dealt with in greater detail in the chapters that follow.
5.1.1. Persistence-capable
The concept of a persistence-capable class was explored in detail in Chapter 3. It's the basic mechanism that enables JDO to transparently persist instances of a Java class in a datastore. Any Java class that implements the JDO PersistenceCapable interface and adheres to the JDO programming style is said to be persistence-capable and can be used with any JDO implementation without recompilation.
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