Database Programming with JDBC and Java, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

Being an enterprise-level Java programming book you get plenty of patterns, courtesy of UML. This is good material in a theoretical kind of way. Fortunately, Reese goes well beyond theory. There is an unusually high level of attention paid to the real world. For example, you get a list of database vendors who supply JDBC drivers. Now that's useful. And "useful" is a word which well describes Database Programming with JDBC and Java. It's packed full of the kind of information which comes from hands-on experience using JDBC in live projects. For example, the early section on setting up a connection to a database provides solid information about setting class paths and other practical details which are often glossed over as too obvious to point out. Nothing is too obvious until you know it.

The discussion concerning user interface design is equally interesting. Reese argues your presentation layer should be trivial to change for use on a variety of display devices, which means completely disconnected from the database itself and referring only to the business objects encapsulated in your Java code. This argues against using rapid development tools which base presentation on data structures making it awkward to edit. The new section on Swing integration with JDBC is particularly welcome as is the inclusion of a detailed discussion of the JDBC Optional Pack, which makes database connections far simpler and is gradually gaining vendor driver support.

If you are a working Java programmer who needs a practical course on JDBC this is a hard book to beat. --Steve Patient

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Java and databases make a powerful combination. Getting the two sides to work together, however, takes some effort -largely because Java deals in objects while most databases do not. This text describes the standard Java interfaces that make portable object-oriented access to relational databases possible and offers a robust model for writing applications that are easy to maintain. It introduces the JDBC and RMI packages and uses them to develop three-tier applications (applications divided into a user interface, an object- oriented logic component, and an information store). The book begins with a quick overview of SQL for developers who may be asked to handle a database for the first time. It then explains how to issue database queries and updates through SQL and JDBC. It also covers the use of stored procedures and other measures to improve efficiency, where these are available. But the book's key contribution is a set of patterns that let developers isolate critical tasks like object creation, information storage and retrieval, and the committing or aborting of transactions. The second edition includes more basics of JDBC and SQL, with more examples, and a deeper discussion about the architecture of a robust, maintainable database application. The second edition also explains the relationship between JDBC and Enterprise JavaBeans.

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