Introducing: Innovation Lab Seminar Series

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The Innovation Lab Undergraduate Seminar Series will provide students a valuable opportunity to discover cutting-edge technologies from presentations by industry experts.

The first seminar, "A Brief Introduction to the Java Persistence API," features Dr. Chris Bourke, one of CSE's newest professors, who earned both his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science & Mathematics and his PhD in Computer Science here at UNL.

Complex applications make frequent use of an underlying data model. In development, much effort is put toward the mundane tasks of coding CRUD (Create-Retrieve-Update-Destroy). Recent developments of Data Access Object frameworks have freed developers from needing to worry about loading, persisting, and managing data, keeping them closer to the application layer. In this seminar, we will introduce the basic concepts and use of one such framework: Java Persistence API (JPA) using Hibernate.