Links to relevant material
For EMF there is also another persistency framework: CDO. You can visit the CDO website at: CDO.
Object Relational Mapping
Articles
- Scott Ambler has written a large number of interesting articles on ORM, this page on his website lists a lot or links to ORM related material: see Mapping Objects To Relational Databases, see also, The Design of a Robust Persistence Layer for Relational Databases
XML Articles
- XML Schema Part 0: Primer, XML Schema Part 1: Structures, XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes
- Ronald Bourret has written a number of interesting articles about persisting XML documents (for a full listing go here. Here are a number of direct links to a number of relevant articles: