e-Commerce Applications Using Oracle8i and Java from Scratch

DatabaseMetaData Interface

The DatabaseMetaData interface contains methods that can be used to obtain information about the database used in the current connection. Objects of the DatabaseMetaData class are created by the getMetaData method of the connection object. We won't go into detail about the DatabaseMetaData interface because it is generally used for writing generic programs against a variety of back-end databases. For further details about the DatabaseMetaData interface you can refer to the Web site:

http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/java/sql/DatabaseMetaData.html