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The problem with JPA/Hibernate (or the future of ORM)
Aticle about ORM on java.dzone.com, by Steven Devijver, 2008.01.17.
The article catches that disappointment feeling that inspired BeanKeeper. The complex and overkill ORM solutions which today exist are just a pain to use in most cases, and also lack basic functions to properly an easily develop applications. Unfortunately the article is light on details and specific examples.
ActiveObjects: An Easier Java ORM
Aticle about ActiveObjects on java.dzone.com, by Matthew Schmidt, 2008.01.10.
This is an introduction to ActiveObjects, which is a Rails inspired ORM for Java. The intresting thing is, the article mentions BeanKeeper, and claims it is as hard to use as Hibernate and iBatis. It is an interesting article on ActiveObjects nonetheless.
A german blog entry, which demonstrates BeanKeeper, and talks about some problems in the then current BeanKeeper version.
Zero-config object persistence with Simple Persistence for Java
Tutorial article from IBM developerworks, by Sami Salkosuo, 2007.02.13.
This was one of the first articles on the internet about BeanKeeper. When the article was written, the library still had the (rather long) name of 'Simple Persistence for Java'. The article is tutorial-like, and introduces basic features of BeanKeeper through an example application.