Database Programming with JDBC & Java: Developing Multi-Tier Applications (Java (O'Reilly))

good book it got here very fast and have been reading it ever since thanks so much

This is a very good book on multi-tier distributed database access. If you want to know about JDBC then I would not recommend this book. If you want to know how to build multi-tier distributed applications that access remote data sources (with JDBC on the server), then get this. Be warned that some concepts are dealt with a little simplistically, but this book does cover the conceptual framework of a distributed system well (including examples).

Horrible book, it lacks detail and explanations, it doesn't help you understand anything and he's not a good writer.

I read this book as I wanted to make sure I've been using JDBC in the correct way. I've been writing software with JDBC, and I needed to be sure that I wasn't doing anything stupid to impact the performance of my software, and wasn't missing out on any functionality that JDBC offers. This book covers everything I wanted to know, and more. It contains a high-level overview of SQL, which was quick to read/skim because the material was familiar. It also covers the history of JDBC and explains why things were done a certain way. It also contains a number of examples that showed me new ways of doing things. I could have Googled much of this information (if I knew what to search for), but it's nice to see it all presented in a single place. Part II was beyond what I was looking for, but interesting all the same. I've read about EJB before, but never used it. It was good to see a discussion of how EJB works and what the various steps were in using EJB to access databases. There was also a good discussion on system architecture with respect to designing business applications. Very high-level, but interesting to see. Part III was very quick to skim, but help me understand whether I was missing any of the important APIs. In all, a good book to brush up your skills if you're a bit rusty. I can't say it contained much ground-breaking information, but it's worth reading if you're a newbie to JDBC.

cheap price; quick and dirty to get up and running to teach son java and all the toys

I'm a Java Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform. I bought this book to begin learning additional APIs. The preface claimed that only a basic knowledge of Java and some understanding of SQL was required. The book was not as advertised. Yes, the book did cover basic and advanced JDBC in two very short chapters, and provided a summary of the features of JDBC Optional Package without giving any details in a third. After reading these chapters I feel I have had an introduction to the subject, but no real depth. The rest of the book takes off into very difficult Java topics (RMI, JNDI, EJB, Java Patterns, Distributed Architectures, Persistence, Swing...)proportedly to demonstrate how JDBC is used in the "real world." From time to time I was actually able to understand some of it, most of the time not. The author did not provide a high level introduction to these topics, which I would have found useful. Rather, the author jumped into the bowels of these subjects in a page or two. The language the author uses is often very exacting such as one might expect to find in a specification. The exacting language and limited number of illustrations caused me to have to re-read many sections several times often to remain confused. The majority of this book was way too ambitious for someone with the background the Prefaces the reader should have. This book may be very useful for a reader with a more advanced background. After I have read several other books covering the "unadvertised-bonus" topics which comprise most of this book more slowly, I will try to read it again.

This work has been intensively researched for many years, assuredly advancing the careers of those who chose to commit hours upon hours of their life learning about the Java language. This work covers topics other than JDBC, and this is one of the bright spots of the book because the context in which JDBC is important becomes apparent. For those who intend to eventually learn about persistence, hibernate, and other technologies, this is a very valuable work.

good product, like it.