Native Queries for Persistent Objects A Design White Paper William R. Cook Carl Rosenberger Department of Computer Sciences db4objects Inc. The University of Texas at Austin 1900 South Norfolk Street Austin, TX 78712-0233, U.S.A. San Mateo, CA, 94403, U.S.A. wcook@cs.utexas.edu carl@db4o.com August 23, 2005 Abstract Most persistence architectures for Java and .NET provide interfaces to execute qu