Introduction

Oracle Application Server TopLink (OracleAS TopLink) is a proven product that integrates the object and relational data worlds, allowing applications to easily manage Java objects using relational databases.

TopLink works with:

Any database
Any application server
Any development toolset and process
Any J2EE architecture

To fully appreciate the power and flexibility of OracleAS TopLink, we must first understand the object-relational impedance mismatch problem.