This highly anticipated book tackles performance issues in JDBC applications head-on, to help you become an expert yourself! The book details concisely and clearly, the relevant aspects of Oracle's architecture that directly impact the performance and effectiveness of your JDBC application.

Author R.M. Menon provides comprehensive coverage of the JDBC API, with an in-depth review of Oracle 10g-specific features (the book also covers Oracle 9i.) Menon covers basic and advanced JDBC (standard and Oracle extensions), performance tips with supporting benchmarks, connection pooling, statement caching, selected PL/SQL techniques, Oracle objects and collections, as well as other topics.