13. The medium according to claim 8 , wherein the code to populate the determined members of the persistent database object with the default values comprises: code to populate the determined members of the persistent database object with the default values before transferring the persistent database object to a requesting application.
13. The medium according to claim 8 , wherein the code to populate the determined members of the persistent database object with the default values comprises: code to populate the determined members of the persistent database object with the default values before transferring the persistent database object to a requesting application. 14. The medium according to claim 13 , wherein the code to read the persistent database object from the database further comprising: code to transfer the persistent database object to the requesting application after the populating of the determined members of the persistent database object with the default values.