Conventions Used in This Book

Italic is used for:

  • Pathnames, filenames, and program names

  • Internet addresses, such as domain names and URLs

  • New terms where they are defined

Boldface is used for:

  • Names of servers

Constant width is used for:

  • Anything that might appear in a Java program, including object names, keywords, method names, variable names, class names, and interface names

  • Command lines and options that should be typed verbatim

  • Tags that might appear in an HTML document

  • Java package norms

  • SQL commands

Constant-width italic is used for:

  • Replaceable elements in code statements

Constant-width bold is used for:

  • New JDK 1.2 methods in old JDK 1.1 classes

Examples of the programs in this book may be retrieved online from ftp.oreilly.com in /pub/examples/java/jdbc. The files are on the site as examples.tar.gz.

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