Distributed JPA
Jan 8th, 2008 by Eric Samson
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48000
http://people.apache.org/~ppoddar/slice/site/
There is definitely a need for that.
Reminds me of C-JDBC (clustered JDBC):
- Old version @ ObjectWeb: http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org/
- now Sequoia at Continuent: http://sequoia.continuent.org/HomePage
Requirements for distribution of databases are somewhat close to those of Data Access in SOA.