Unidata Inc’s making good on the promise it made to provide bridges between object and relational data stores using Java using software from its O2 Technology acquisition (CI No 3,241) and will this week begin selling a $2,000 Java Relational Binding which maps Java classes into relational database structures. The binding will work against any JDBC-compliant database although in its initial form does not support the JavaSoft-endorsed ODMG object database management specification. Unidata says the binding – which includes methods for to red and write Java objects in the relational database – will from next summer enable developers to move objects between object and relational databases. An object cache enables applications to utilize the database’s stored procedures. Unidata hopes developers will use the binding to store their Java applications in relational stores and subsequently migrate them to its future Universal Object Server. VMark Software Inc’s acquisition of Unidata is supposed to close by the end of 1997.
