Chapter 7. Databases
This chapter is a brief introduction to the topic of integrating databases into networked Java applications. As with many of the topics in this book, the development of database applications is a subject that can fill a book of its own. And it has, many times over. For the purposes of this book, rather than trying to cover the gamut of database design and development in depth, we will restrict this chapter to a discussion of the following topics:
An overview of the primary database access API available in the Java environment, JDBC
A discussion of the basic issues that arise in developing networked database applications
The special issues that come into play when multiple distributed databases are accessed from a single application
We assume that the reader has a basic understanding of general relational database topics, such as SQL and the layout of data into tables and records. For more in-depth coverage of the JDBC package than we will be able to provide here, refer to George Reese’s book, Database Programming with JDBC and Java (O’Reilly & Associates).
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