6.5. Queries, Filters, and Optional parameters
Let us now look at the slightly more advanced features of the query facility. These features allow the use of parameters in a query string, the use of declarative imports and variables, respectively.
6.5.1. Declaring parameters
Rather than hard coding the values for certain objects in the filter string, the filter can contain placeholders that can be replaced with different values. This allows a single query to be executed multiple times with new values for the placeholder. For repeated queries, vendors can optimize their underlying implementation specific to the datastore for optimizing performance. Conceptually, the usage of parameters in JDOQL is similar to the way parameters are passed in JDBC ...
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