JAWS—The Default CMP Implementation

JAWS (Just Another Web Storage) is the default object-to-relational (O-R) mapping tool provided with JBoss for CMP entity beans. JAWS plugs into the JBoss container as the EntityPersistenceStore implementation in the default CMP container configuration defined in standard jboss.xml. JAWS is essentially a much more sophisticated version of the FileStore example you just learned, which uses a JDBC database rather than a file system as its persistent store. The topic of the remainder of this chapter is the customization of JAWS for your particular entity beans and database.

What is O-R Mapping?

O-R mapping technology grew out of the differences between how object-oriented languages represent objects in memory, ...

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