JDBC, JNDI, and EJBs
It seems like JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity API) has been with us since the dawn of time. It's the reliable old guy who's sitting in the corner smoking his cigar that nobody thinks about any more. But it wasn't always this way. I clearly remember wrestling with so-called “standard” features of JDBC back in 1997. Even getting the JDBC driver to connect to the database was a delicate balancing act and still can be. But assuming your JDBC driver is properly configured, you can be reasonably assured that your Java code can get stuff out of your database and put stuff back in.
JDBC 2.0 went one step beyond the previous version of JDBC in a number of ways, most notably by allowing advanced data types and access to databases ...
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