Expert Oracle and Java Security: Programming Secure Oracle Database Applications with Java

Java Objects and Oracle Database Structures

In this book, I will be using certain terms non-interchangeably that are used interchangeably elsewhere. Often schemas, tables, indexes, and other items in Oracle Database are referred to as both objects and structures. Because object is a technical term in Java and not just another word for thing, I will reserve the word for our discussion of Java objects. In Oracle Database, I'm calling things by their primary type name and collectively or generically as structures, so tables will be called both tables and structures. I will also have a need to refer to collections of Oracle tables and views and indexes and things, which I will call collectively structures. We will define all these terms later, so ...