DataBind is a library to simplify the persistance
of Java objects to a datastore. A data store may
be a relational database, XML files, or any other
type of datastore. Java objects which are
persisted do not need to be modified in any way.
The only requirement for persisted objects is
that they have read and write methods for each
field that you would like to persist and an empty
constructor. The read and write methods are
specified at deployment time in an XML file and
thus can be any method (in other words they do
not have to be getter and setter methods,
although this is the preferred method signature.)
DataBind also supports loading and storing
collections of objects. Objects can be retrieved
from the database using search elements to select
a subset of the available objects.
