12. Persistent Objects: Serialization, Marshaling, and Relational Databases

No matter what type of business application you create, a database most likely will be part of the equation. In fact, one of my favorite lines when it comes to software development is, “It’s all about the data.” In short, no matter what hardware, operating system, application software, and so on is used when developing a software application, the need for the data is usually the reason for creating the system in the first place.