Misti Cross is a privileged young woman who feels out of balance in her father's corporate world. Her mother's passing only strengthens these emotions and leads to a secret existence of self-harm. Suddenly, everything in her life changes, morphing into a terrible nightmare much worse than anything she'd experienced before. A mutilating disease spreads rapidly across the world, changing most of mankind. Misti longs to find a solution before it's too late. Her battle to unearth hope in a dying world drives her into the arms of someone she never expected, and in return she is forced to see her own short comings. Can Misti look beyond the limited view of her own eyes long enough to find love? Will she be able to discover a truth which offers healing, or will she simply see that change is inevitable? There will always be those who resist...

This is a definitive guide to JDO API. It provides a thorough introduction to JDO (Java Data Objects), starting with a simple application that demonstrates many of JDO's capabilities. It shows the reader how to make classes persistent, how to configure JDO at runtime, how to make queries and more.