Richard Sperko is an architect-level consultant for Centare Group, Ltd. Richard has 11 years of software development experience and has been working with emerging technologies that entire time. He has extensive knowledge in Java/J2EE and other object-oriented technologies. He is certified as a Sun Microsystems Java Developer and working on his Sun Microsystems Java Architect and Microsoft Certified Application Developer certifications. He spends as much time as he can with his lovely wife and beautiful son.
From the reviews: Richard Sperko's Java Persistence for Relational Databases does an admirable job of outlining the problems and of explaining what the different solutions have to offer. ... In addition, the book provides good coverage of EJB, JDO ... . In all this is a highly accessible, wide-ranging and interesting introduction to object persistence and Java. (Application Development Advisor, November/December, 2003)