1) Are there examples of BLOB usage in your book? I see you cover the BLOB and CLOB in the API book, but my challenge in using those was I could not find code examples outside of something specific to Oracle. I was trying to find examples for Access, SQL Server, and Sybase and wasn't successful. Is that because the API for BLOBs are technology or driver specific?
2) Do you have proxy examples in your applet example? That was useful to me when I was using JDBC calls to an SQL Server that did not reside on the same machine as my applet lived on. I was able to track down a way to do this through a proxy that Sybase provided but it wasn't intuitively obvious to the most casual observer.
3) In the section you talk about PreparedStatement, do you talk about how some drivers may run into performance problems without it? I had a friend working on a servlet and ran into some errors until I showed him the PreparedStatement and now it seems to run just fine.
4) What new information is available in the ResultSet?
5) Do you cover the proper place to put your driver in Applet and in J2EE deployments? For me that wasn't obvious either and that would be useful information to have. I ended up dinking around putting the jar in different directories until I got it right but it wasn't quick and easy.
Thanks for being here to answer questions about your book.