In the previous article, we left off with the basic storage model having its objects first existing as changed in the processor’s cache, then being aged into volatile DRAM memory, often with changes ...

Object caching is an important piece in the design and development of Web portals. In a typical Web portal application, we need the frequently accessed data in a JVM's memory, but, at the same time, ...

Persistence is one of the greatest challenges for building applications. There are many options for building persistence layers. Data Access Objects (DAO) is a popular design pattern for building the ...

The need to persist data created at runtime is as old as computing. And the need to store object-oriented data cropped up when object-oriented programming became pervasive. Currently, most modern, ...

Smart developers live by the “buy before build” philosophy, but when it comes to improving data retrieval performance via a cache, build has been the only available option. Enter .NET’s Cache class, ...

The concepts of tiering and caching data are as old as computing itself. Both form an effective strategy in achieving the best price/performance ratio for storage in the enterprise. But, with a huge ...

Developing a persistent domain model for an enterprise application is challenging. The reason we implement the business logic with a domain model is because the problem domain is complex. Therefore, ...