[aspectj-users] Re: aspectj-users Digest, Vol 19, Issue 38

["Kevin A. Roll" <kroll@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 18, 2006, at 4:29 AM, aspectj-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I want to build a system in which certain Java objects are backed by a
> database.  I'd like to make it so that database references are an
> transparent as possible, so that objects exist in memory as stubs  
> until
> such time as their fields are required, at which point they are loaded
> from the database. Later they may be garbage collected, written  
> back into
> the database and removed from memory.

What you are describing sounds very much like Java Data Objects  
(JDO).... there are open-source implementations of this standard  
available.