Chapter 8. Updating Inventory: SQL Databases and SAX

In this chapter

  • Connecting to the Database: JDBC, ODBC, and SQL

  • Creating the Inventory Database

  • Creating the Initial Inventory

  • Introduction to SAX: Adjusting Inventory

  • Using SAX to Parse the File

  • Retrieving Information from the Database: Backorders

  • Next Steps

Until now, we've been concentrating on the user experience, and the browser end of the equation. Now it's time for us to step back and take a look under the hood.

I think we can say with a fair degree of certainty that there isn't a single significantly large site in the Web today that doesn't use a back-end database in some way, even if that database isn't directly connected to the Web site. It may have databased content in it, or it may have ...

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