front matter
forewords
When Cătălin asked me to write this foreword, I realized that for 17 years of my career, I’ve mostly been dealing with the problems that are discussed and solved in this book. Historically, we’ve come to a state where most data is persisted in relational DBMSs. The task may sound quite simple; save data in a database, read it, modify it if needed, and finally delete it. Many (even senior) developers don’t realize how much computer science there is in those several operations. Talking to a relational database from an OOP language like Java is like speaking to a person from another world who lives by completely different rules.
In the early years of my career, I spent most of my time just mapping “ResultSets” to Java objects ...
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