Introduction
JDBC is an API based on the X/Open CLI specifications. It resembles ODBC and allows Java programs to communicate with relational databases and other data sources. Oracle implements an extension of JDBC that contains Java classes, allowing Java programs to interface with an Oracle database. The most important interfaces and classes of JDBC that are implemented include
DriverManager
Connection
DatabaseMetaData
Statement
ResultSet
ResultSetMetaData
This appendix shows the various methods provided by these interfaces and classes.
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