"Java Programmers of the World Unite!" begins this self-proclaimed revolutionary book with only half a wink. "You've got nothing to lose but the chains of method calls through endless layers of APIs until you reach the database!" If you're a Java programmer bowing down before the puffed-up majesty of the stumbling, tottering SQL database, read this book and speed up your applications from 3 to 3000 times. Stop struggling with acronyms like JDO, JDBC, J2EE, or EJB and live in pure object-oriented harmony. Seize control of the objects again and stop reshaping and reforming the data to make it fit in the decades old vision of SQL. Working with pure Java is faster, simpler and just as safe as the old regime.