December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
20h 27m
English
Just as Java provides for platform independence, Java provides a mechanism for dealing with databases in a vendor- transparent way. The mechanism for this is Java Database Connectivity (JDBC).
Conceptually, JDBC is loosely based on ODBC, a standard in relational database connectivity published by Microsoft (though originally developed jointly by Microsoft and Sybase). The reason for this similarity is to make JDBC easier to learn. Other than that, there is no connection between JDBC and ODBC.
The support for database programming in Java is found primarily in the java.sql package. If you are unfamiliar with this package, take a quick look at Chapter 31, "java.sql." You will notice something very different ...
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