CRITICAL SKILL 7.2

Overview of Java

This section will introduce DBAs to the Java programming language from a DBA perspective. After reading this section, DBAs will also understand enough terms and acronyms to speak with confidence at any barbeque party where Java developers are in attendance. The emphasis in this section will be on terminology and concepts important for a new Oracle Database 10g DBA. Here are some of the reasons why Java has become a mainstream language:

Image Object-Oriented Java is an object-oriented programming (OOP) language that has become quite mainstream. An object-oriented language uses individual software components (objects) ...

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