Review the OTN's new
Oracle Database 10g JDBC Samples that illustrate new features introduced with Oracle10g JDBC Driver. The features illustrated are
Connection Cache, Named Parameter Support, IEEE Datatypes, Thin Driver support for PLSQL Index by Tables and Web Rowset. Also watch out for samples on Datalinks, New Encryption Algorithms, Globalization Support, Shortcuts for CLOB manipulation and more to be hosted shortly.
The samples are available at,
http://otn.oracle.com/sample_code/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/files/oracle10g/index.html