Preface

Oracle TopLink Developer's Guide explains how to use Oracle TopLink to design, implement, deploy, and optimize an advanced persistence or object-to-XML transformation layer for a wide range of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Java applications. It describes TopLink mapping metadata, sessions, data access, queries, transactions (both with and without an external transaction controller), and cache.

It describes how to use TopLink application development tools and how to integrate TopLink with a variety of J2EE containers. It also introduces the concepts with which you should be familiar to get the most out of TopLink.