Lecture Materials Persistence (Pt. 1) slides (PDF) Reading Assignment: Java in a Nutshell, pages on java.util.Properties The Preferences API in Java 1.4, Jeff Brown, October 2001 JNDI Tutorial Overview, Rosanna Lee, March 2002(optional) Serializing Java objects using java.io.Serializable, from the Java Tutorial Magic with Merlin: JavaBean Long-term persistence, John Zukowski, July 2001 (optional) The debate over Java Data Objects, Dion Almaer, January, 2002 (optional) Simplify XML programming with JDOM, Wes Biggs and Harry Evans, May 2001. How to write unmaintainable code, Roedy Green (optional, April Fools!) Software stackmvcdb-1.0401.zip stackmcv-1.0401.zip (optional, update) stack-2.0401.zip (optional, update)