Many vendors and customers are now looking for easy database access for Java applications. Since Java is robust, secure, easy to use, easy to understand, and automatically downloadable on a network, it is an excellent language basis for the development of database applications. It offers many advantages over C, C++, Smalltalk, BASIC, COBOL, and 4GLs for a wide variety of uses. Many Java application developers would like to write code that is independent of the particular DBMS or database connectivity mechanism being ... more→