Advanced JDBC Features

WebLogic Server 8.1 supports the 2.0 specification of JDBC. With this version, there have been several enhancements to the API. In this specification, the JDBC API has been separated into two parts: the core API and the standard extensions package. All the core classes and interfaces discussed as part of the basic JDBC features continue to remain in the java.sql package. Some new classes and interfaces have been added to this package with the 2.0 specification. Apart from this, the 2.0 specification introduces the javax.sql package, which is the JDBC Standard Extension API. In this section, we go over many of the enhancements of JDBC specification 2.0.

JDBC Extensions Package

One of the most important enhancements to JDBC ...

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