Beginning Database–Driven Application Development in Java™ EE - Using GlassFish™

Written by Oracle and Java expert Yuli Vasiliev, Beginning GlassFish Toplink is likely the first book that covers the open source lightweight GlassFish TopLink persistence engine (like Hibernate). Also, it is expected to be the first beginning level book on the next key open source agile Java persistence tool to possibly replace Hibernate. Both GlassFish and TopLink are open source projects heavily backed by Sun and Oracle. TopLink. GlassFish is the broader umbrella project that contains TopLink as a subproject persistence framework, an emerging JSF framework and GlassFish Java EE application server, primarily. GlassFish is essentially a platform that takes Java EE and makes it practical and easy to use, similar to JBoss Seam and app server. This book lets Java developers build Java EE applications interacting with a relational database via the Java Persistence API (JPA) and an open source implementation in Toplink. Then, the developer is able to deploy using the GlassFish Application Server.