"Since our inception, SolarMetric has focused on developer productivity and reduced software cost through standards-based persistence solutions. Kodo is the high performance, scalable, flexible O/R mapping core that is the basis for our products, Kodo JDO and for Kodo for EJB 3," said Neelan Choksi, president of SolarMetric, on the eve of JavaOne, Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference.

SolarMetric, makers of the Kodo product line, the leading standards-based, enterprise-quality object/relational mapping tools, will introduce Kodo for EJB 3 with support for the forthcoming Enterprise Java Beans 3.0 Persistence specification at JavaOne. Kodo for EJB 3 and the award-winning Kodo JDO will be highlighted at the SolarMetric Booth, #301 in the JavaOne Pavilion.

At the show, SolarMetric's CTO, Patrick Linskey, will be presenting at three sessions:

-- "The New EJB(TM) 3.0 Persistence API" with EJB 3 specification lead, Linda DeMichiel and others -- "Java(TM) Data Objects in Action" with JDO specification lead, Craig Russell -- "EJB(TM) 3.0" BOF with DeMichiel

The EJB 3 specification is one of the key components in J2EE 5.0 and was designed to simplify development and improve productivity. As an active member of the EJB specification team, SolarMetric encourages the Java community to download Kodo for EJB 3 and provide feedback to help ensure that EJB 3 meets the needs of the community as a whole.

"Developers using the Kodo product suite will be able to leverage both the EJB 3 specification and the JDO2 specification, employing the best of both worlds side-by-side. JavaONE is a great venue for us to showcase our interoperability strategy," said Choksi.