"JoSQL (SQL for Java Objects) provides the ability for a developer to apply a SQL statement to a collection of Java Objects. JoSQL provides the ability to search, order and group ANY Java objects and should be applied when you want to perform SQL-like queries on a collection of Java Objects."

For example, to find all the HTML files that have been modified in December 2004:

SELECT * FROM java.io.File WHERE name $LIKE "%.html" AND lastModified BETWEEN toDate('01-12-2004') AND toDate('31-12-2004')

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