TopLink Key Features

TopLink provides an extensive and thorough set of features. Java developers can use these features to rapidly build high-performance enterprise applications that are both scalable and maintainable.

Some of the primary features of TopLink are the following:

• Nonintrusive, flexible, metadata-based architecture (see "Understanding TopLink Metadata")

• Comprehensive visual TopLink Workbench

• Advanced mapping support and flexibility (relational, object-relational, EIS, and XML)

• Object caching support

• Query flexibility

• Just-in-time reading

• Caching

• Object-level transaction support and integration

• Locking

• Multiple performance tuning options

• Architectural flexibility

For additional information, see the TopLink page on OTN:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/index.html