What is JDBC?

[Marco Behler]

Dear Coderanchers,

Time for another light read:

What is JDBC?

1. Drivers
2. Connections/Queries/ResultSets
3. Connection Pooling

https://www.marcobehler.com/guides/jdbc

Enjoy!

[Liutauras Vilda]

Thank you for posting your entries in the right forum. Well deserved cow for that.

[Bob Winter]

Solid article.

+ doesn't use Class.forName()
+ uses PreparedStatement
+ shows usage of DataSource and connection pooling
+ also makes use of tey-with-resources to cleanly return the connection to the pool

- doesn't mentioned MariaDB
- no exaple for DELETE but rather only "same as insert and update"

Overall length is ok for a blog post to just give a jumpstart. Should be read by anyone planing some book or wiki or tutorial about jdbc.

[Marco Behler]

@Bob Winter

Thanks! I'll try and weave in your two points in the next revision of the article.

Meanwhile, you might be interested to know that I'm indeed writing a short workbook on JDBC. Let me know what you think!

https://www.marcobehler.com/books/2-jdbc-workbook

[Marco Behler]

Bob Winter wrote:Solid article.

+ doesn't use Class.forName()
+ uses PreparedStatement
+ shows usage of DataSource and connection pooling
+ also makes use of tey-with-resources to cleanly return the connection to the pool

- doesn't mentioned MariaDB
- no exaple for DELETE but rather only "same as insert and update"

Overall length is ok for a blog post to just give a jumpstart. Should be read by anyone planing some book or wiki or tutorial about jdbc.

Hi Bob, just a quick update. I added the MariaDB driver and the delete example.

Thanks again for the feedback!