How to Access Data in a Relational Database

This section contains examples of how to access data in a relational database using object-relational mapping with transparent persistence. The examples show the code needed to perform the operations illustrated by the animation of .

The code opens a database, starts a transaction, executes a query to find a Person object named "Doug Barry," does some further processing on that object, traverses to an Address object, updates the street of the Address object, commits the transaction, and closes the database. Also see .

Examples of relational database access using transparent persistence can be found using the following links:

For how to use object-relational mapping with Java application servers, see .

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