This book tackles issues head-on, detailing concisely and clearly the vital details of Oracle's architecture and mode of operation that directly impact the manner in which JDBC applications should be written. Only when armed with this knowledge, a willingness to exploit the database to its full potential in your JDBC code, and the ability to use Oracle's SQL and PL/SQL features when appropriate, is it possible to write truly efficient, robust, scalable and high performance applications.

Autorentext
R.M. Menon has worked with Oracle database for over 11 years, eight of which have been at Oracle Corporation. Menon works as a project lead in the core technology division of Oracle. For the past five years, Menon has used JDBC and other J2EE technologies extensively as part of his work. He believes in the philosophy of proving all assertions, and has strived to follow this philosophy rigorously in his book. When he is not doing research on Oracle, Menon learns Indian classical vocal music and performs at local cultural events as a singer. Occasionally, he also dabbles in sketching portraits, and drawing paintings and cartoons.

Klappentext

• First book on the market that covers building high-performance Java applications on the Oracle database-using the latest versions of both the Oracle database (10g) and the JDBC API (3.0). * Promotes and explains an "anti black box" approach to Oracle development complete with benchmark code) that will allow developers to write highly efficient, high performance Oracle JDBC applications. * A new book from the prestigious OakTable Press, which Apress will be strongly promoting and supporting throughout 2004.

Zusammenfassung

JDBC is the most commonly used API in Java to access and manipulate data in a database. Oracle is one of the most popular and scalable databases in the world. This book is a must-have for any developer building an application that employs JDBC on Oracle database. Unlike other JDBC books, this book has been written to complement not rehash the contents of Oracle JDBC documentation and the JDBC specification.

The book teaches you not just how to write JDBC code, but how to write effective JDBC code in a step-by-step fashion. This book does not assume any prior knowledge of JDBC, though it does assume basic knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL. It covers JDBC with a focus on writing high-performing, scalable and secure applications for Oracle 10g and 9i.

Inhalt
Performance Toolkit.- Oracle Fundamentals.- to JDBC.- Transactions.- Statement and PreparedStatement.- CallableStatement.- Result Sets Explored.- Oracle Objects: An Objective Analysis.- Using Weakly Typed Struct Objects.- Using Strongly Typed Interfaces with JPublisher.- Using Oracle Collections and References.- Using LOBs and BFILEs.- Statement Caching.- Connection Pooling and Caching.- Security-Related Issues.- Locking-Related Issues.- Selected PL/SQL Techniques.