Chapter 10.2.1. Basic Connection Management
Every access to the database requires a DB connection. From the user’s point of view, a connection is how you tell SQLObject to locate your database. It resembles a URI in the following format:
scheme://[user[:password]@]host[:port]/database[?parameters]
The connection is the only place where you specify the actual database you use. The rest of your data access code is totally DB-agnostic. Unfortunately, SQLObject doesn’t provide a perfect abstraction; sometimes you need to consider the features of the underlying database you are using. Some databases don’t support some features, or you might want to write a highly tuned query with database-specific features. With that said, SQLObject does a ...
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