If someone needs help in overturning this patent, you should contact me, Keith Hankin (email
addr keith105@yahoo.com).
I have a patent in my name for precisely this sort of object-relational mapping technology
from the days when I worked at Netscape: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6912520.html
The technology described in this patent was developed with Java in 1998-1999, however the
patent wasn't filed for another year or two after that.
In addition, I developed similar object-relational mapping technology about 5 years earlier
(in C rather than Java) for another company called Uniteq Application Systems. However in that
case, no patent was ever filed for.