JDBC is the key Java technology for relational database access. Oracle
is arguably the most widely used relational database platform in the
world. In this book, Donald Bales brings these two technologies
together, and shows you how to leverage the full power of Oracle's
implementation of JDBC.
You begin by learning the all-important mysteries of establishing
database connections. This can be one of the most frustrating areas for
programmers new to JDBC, and Donald covers it well with detailed
information and examples showing how to make database connections from
applications, applets, Servlets, and even from Java programs running
within the database itself.
Next comes thorough coverage of JDBC's relational SQL features. You'll
learn how to issue SQL statements and get results back from the
database, how to read and write data from large, streaming data types
such as BLOBs, CLOBs, and BFILEs, and you'll learn how to interface with
Oracle's other built-in programming language, PL/SQL.
If you're taking advantage of the Oracle's relatively new ability to
create object tables and column objects based on user-defined datatypes,
you'll be pleased with Don's thorough treatment of this subject. Don
shows you how to use JPublisher and JDBC to work seamlessly with Oracle
database objects from within Java programs. You'll also learn how to
access nested tables and arrays using JDBC.
Donald concludes the book with a discussion of transaction management,
locking, concurrency, and performance--topics that every professional
JDBC programmer must be familiar with. If you write Java programs to run
against an Oracle database, this book is a must-have.
