7.2. RDBMS, ODBMS, and Flatfiles
Unlike JDBC, which is specific to databases that support SQL, JDO is datastore-neutral. The same JDO application can be used with a relational database, an object database, a flatfile, or even an in-memory database. A JDO implementation for the underlying datastore being used is all that's required.
Although the application itself remains the same across databases, how a database is set up and used with a JDO implementation varies. The JDO specification does not define how a persistence-capable class is actually mapped to its representation in the underlying datastore; this is left to the JDO implementation. Typically, before a JDO application can be run, the following steps must be performed:
- Specify the mapping ...
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