This book covers Oracle8i, Release 2, Version 8.1.6, which is the first version of Oracle to support JDBC Version 2.0. Accordingly, the examples used in the book were tested with JDK Version 1.2.2 and J2EE Version 1.2. Don’t be discouraged if you’re still using JDK 1.1.x. Most of the examples, except for some of the J2EE stuff, work fine with JDK 1.1.5+. Even some of the features that are new to JDBC 2.0, such as prefetching and batching, are supported under JDK 1.1.5+ via an additional Oracle import. All the program examples are available online at http://examples.oreilly.com/jorajdbc/.
Oracle8i, Version 8.1.7, and Oracle9i both introduce new features that represent incremental improvements to Oracle JDBC. We’ll discuss the most important of these new features in Chapter 20. Even though I used Oracle8i, Version 8.1.6 for all the examples in this book, everything you read still applies to Oracle8i, Release 3, Version 8.1.7 and to Oracle9i.
Most of the filenames in my examples use the Windows path notation using backslashes instead of forward slashes. I use this notation not out of preference for a particular operating system (my preference is Unix), but because I feel most of you will be learning how to use Oracle JDBC on a Win32 platform. So for you Unix/Linux programmers, forgive me for making you reach over the Enter key.
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