Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)

I have been looking into JDO for storing my object data, however I cannot tell from what I have read whether JDO just stores objects or whether it extracts the attribute values from the objects being stored and then stores those values.

I would guess that it is the latter, with attribute values being stored (as this is much more useful, and provides data-independence).

Tim
p.s. I have been using the Data Access Object pattern until now for storing data, but have reached the conclusion that there MUST be a better method of persistence than having DAO's with JDBC/SQL inside.

Edited by: iTim on 20-Jul-2009 11:26