Seminar on persistence

I just gave another seminar on java, persistence and development in the Florence University Software Engineering department.

A power point outline is here

Some references:
Joshua Bloch, Effective java, Sun Microsystem - Addison Wesley, 2001
Gavin King, Christian Bauer, Hibernate in Action: Practical Object/Relational Mapping, Manning, 2004
Hibernate http://www.hibernate.org
Jbpm http://www.jbpm.org
Alan Cooper, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, Sams Publishing, 2004
Joel Spolsky, User Interface Design for Programmers, Apress, 2001