Just yesterday, I posted a detailed review of the book “Persistence in the Enterprise: A Guide to Persistence Technologies” on Java Zone and a few other relevant zones. I wanted to share with you two very unique aspects of this book that are sure to help every developer.

1. If you are a CTO, an architect, a developer or even a tester, this book will help you ask the right kind of questions before you choose a persistence framework; comparing JDBC™, Apache iBATIS, Hibernate Core, Apache OpenJPA, and pureQuery. With this book, you’ll learn how to define requirements for your persistence tier, choose the right solution for your organization, and build and test enterprise systems that help maximize both performance and value.

2. The next thing that makes this book so unique is the tests written for each of these frameworks. The authors have free source code download, and you can learn how to write tests using JUnit and DBUnit for all these persistence frameworks. I have seen developers at a loss when writing unit tests for their persistence tier. This book gives you complete step by step instructions on how to run these samples and tests; via a common example application.

So, lets get started writing tests and see that we get at least 80% code coverage(strive for 100%) for our persistence tier.

P.S: For those of you who are Safari Books Online subscribers, the book is available there in:
http://safari.informit.com/9780131587564. I read the hard copy the hard way.