Features
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- Easy to use
- Small library size (below 100K)
- Supports PostgreSQL
- Supports MySQL
- Supports Oracle
- Own straight-forward, simple query language
- Supports transactions
- Supports polymorphism (selecting for superclass will return all subclasses too)
- Can save any bean (does not use Serializable/Externalizable stuff)
- Transparent handling of references to other beans
- Can handle circular-, or self-references
- Can save Lists and Maps

Wishlist/TODO
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- Make id accessible in object, if there is an attribute named persistenceId
- Somehow watch out in lazy-lists if the underlying tables alter, because
  then the list becomes unusable (it may present duplicate entries, etc.)
- MSSQL support
- Index handling (currently this is non existent)
- Performance enhancements:
  - Inside a transaction a LazyList should be guaranteed to be unaffected
    by other transactions
  - Inside a transaction a LazyList should use JDBC 2 scrolling to be effective
  - Inside a transaction a LazyList size should be computed using JDBC 2 scrolling
  - Outside a transaction the LazyList should fall back to limit/offset queries.
  - Inside a transaction updates should be batched together, and executed
    on commit only, or earlier if there was a query for given modifications
    which forces the updates to execute.
  - Caches (query cache, object cache?)
- Locking: Maybe the library should support locking, serizalizable and
  read-only, etc. object locking.
- Internal: Export type handling (maps and lists) to specific type
  handlers. These will also handle query language constructs, and
  marshalling/unmarshalling.
  This will make type handling extensible.

Design considerations (note to self)
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- Full abstraction from database layer
- Simple beans will be used, no interfaces or methods nescessary,
  similar to in-memory-management
- Query language will be based on objects, for example
  object.name = 'ni', or object['ni']=foobar (last indicating hashmap
  handling)
- Non-transient accessible properties will all be saved,
  maps as well as lists, and custom beans.