ObjectFrontier

Shirish Shetty – Director of Business Development:

SShetty@ObjectFrontier.com.

Dominic Savio – CTO

Dominic@ObjectFrontier.com.
Tel: 770-777-8180 www.objectfrontier.com
Building Enterprise applications
Using EJB 2.0 and/or JDO
Persistence Technologies
Agenda

Persistence Framework

Object-to-Relational Mapping

FrontierSuite for Entity Beans and JDO

FrontierSuite Development Tool

FrontierSuite Runtime Services

FrontierSuite Demo
Persistence Framework
 Persistence Framework

Developer Options in Java (J2SE and J2EE)

Use JDBC API

Use Container Managed Persistence (CMP)

Develop home grown persistence framework

Use third party persistence frameworks

Persistence Framework

Requirements

Higher level API in terms of Objects

Life cycle management

Ease of use and maintenance

Performance
Persistence Framework

Component Model

J2EE container managed persistence

model (CMP 2.0)

Java Data Objects (JDO 1.0)

Proprietary component model

Persistence Framework

Current Component Model Stack

Ease of Use and Maintenance

CMP
Complexity

JDO

JDBC
Persistence Framework

Comparing JDO and CMP

Powerful API

Life cycle management

Ease of development

Granularity

Performance
Persistence Framework

Within J2EE Architecture

Object-to-Relational (O-R) Mapping
O-R Mapping

Requirements

Inheritance and Polymorphism

One-to-One, One-to-Many and Many-to-

Many relations

Managed relations, for example cascading

delete operations

Business logic methods

O-R Mapping

Work Bench

UI Tool for Mapping

Importing UML model

Code Generation

Importing and Creating Relational Schema

and Table

Deployment file creation

O-R Mapping

Application Scenarios

Forward Engineering from an object model

Forward Engineering from Java class

model
Reverse Engineering from an existing
relational schema
FrontierSuite for Entity Beans and JDO
FrontierSuite for Entity Beans and JDO

Highlights

Model Driven Architecture based (Entity

bean and JDO)

Rapid development and easy deployment

Scalable persistence engine

Portable across any database and

application server

Open standards based

FrontierSuite Development Tool
FrontierSuite for Entity Beans and JDO

Development Modules

Modeler

Fusion Builder

Code Generator

ReModeler

Deployer
FrontierSuite for Entity Beans and JDO

Developing a brand new Application

Business Modeling
Automated O-R Mapping, Database
Schema and Table Creation

Customizable
Platform Code
Generation Deployment
FrontierSuite for Entity Beans and JDO

Leveraging existing schema

ReModeler

Customizable
Platform Code Deployment
Generation
FrontierSuite for Entity Beans and JDO

Leveraging existing java classes

Existing Java
Classes Automated O-R Mapping, Database
Schema and Table Creation

Deployment
FrontierSuite for Entity Beans and JDO

Bridging existing schema and java classes

Existing Java Classes ReModeler

Deployment
FrontierSuite Runtime Services
FrontierSuite for Entity Beans and JDO

Value Object Graph

Facilitates object-graph of data transfer

Reduces network overhead
Minimizes container overhead
FrontierSuite for Entity Beans and JDO

Concurrency

Optimistic Locking

Pessimistic Locking

Blind Update
FrontierSuite for Entity Beans and JDO

Object Cache & State Change

Retrieves data from cache

Avoids unnecessary database calls
Optimizes database statements
Shares data among clients
FrontierSuite for Entity Beans and JDO

Distributed Caching

Highly configurable process cache

Caches objects along with its relations
Synchronizes process cache across nodes
FrontierSuite for Entity Beans and JDO

Clustered Caching

Highly scalable and reliable

Transactional Data Integrity

Standard based (API and distribution)

Eliminating single point of failure

FrontierSuite Demo
Q&A