Database Programming with JDBC & Java, Second Edition

Part II.  Applied JDBC

Now that you have covered the depths of the JDBC API, it is time to take this academic knowledge and apply it to real-world database programming. Database programming in Java, however, is vastly different from the kind of database programming required in the more common, non-OO environments. Java is an object-oriented language made for distributed systems programming and thus works in a new way with relational databases. This section introduces an architecture on which you can base object-oriented database applications and walks through an example-distributed database application.