April 2003
Beginner to intermediate
380 pages
12h 25m
English
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Datastore Identity
Datastore identity can be used with datastores that provide an identifier that does not depend on the values of fields in an instance. This is the form of identity that object databases have provided for years. It is also supported in a relational JDO implementation by managing an additional primary-key column that is distinct from the columns containing field values.
Existing relational schemas often have a primary-key column that contains a value provided by a sequence or some other facility that can generate unique values for the application. This is especially useful when the entity being modeled does not have an attribute that is a natural real-world identifier, or when the number of attributes necessary to identify an instance uniquely becomes excessive.
The implementation guarantees that the identity value is unique for all instances. You cannot change the identity of an instance if its class uses datastore identity. Datastore identity is the easiest type of identity to use, because the implementation and datastore handle everything automatically; it does not require any additional development on your part.
A JDO implementation’s datastore identity class has the following characteristics:
It is public.
It implements
Serializable, allowing you to serialize identity instances.The type of all its nonstatic fields are serializable.
All of its serializable fields are public.
It has a public no-arg constructor.
It overrides
toString( ), returning aStringthat can be ...
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