Java/J2EE application - Database independence?

[Edwin DeSouza]

If you are building a Java/J2EE application, you may want to consider building on top of Spring (AppSever independence) and Hibernate (Database independence).

Spring:
http://springframework.org/
http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=SpringFramework

Hibernate:
http://www.hibernate.org/

Spring with Hibernate:
http://www.hibernate.org/110.html

If you want to migrate your database to MySQL, see the MySQL Migration Toolkit:
http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?104