Most software developers have probably heard of and even had experiences with the object-relational impedance mismatch (often addressed with ORM tools), the object-XML impedance mismatch (often ...

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I urge our readers to have a look at the “Vietnam of Computer Science” by Ted Neward, which compares the quagmire of the Vietnam War to the current quagmire that results from our attempts to blend ...

In the book Hibernate in Action (Manning, October 2004), authors Christian Bauer and Gavin King reveal the paradigm mismatch between the two worlds of the object-oriented domain model and the ...

Since the birth of Visual Basic and Access, Microsoft has burned through a series of data-access APIs. Until ADO.NET, none of these APIs was dominant for more than four years. But seven years after ...