• JDBC
• ORM
  • Hibernate
• JPA
• Connection Pooling

JDBC

• Types of drivers?
• BLOB, CLOB(singlebyte LOB),
• DBCLOB(doublebyte LOB)
• Scrollable resultsets
• Rowsets http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/JDBCTutorial/chapter5.html
• Is it good? conn.getHoldability()? the holdability, one of ResultSet.HOLD_CURSORS_OVER_COMMIT or ResultSet.CLOSE_CURSORS_AT_COMMIT

javax.sql.rowset.WebRowSet

ORM

• Define ORM
• Why ORM is required?
• What other ORM tools are available? How is Hibernate better?
• Dance You Imps!
• Vietname of Computer Science
• Martin Fowler on ORM Hate

Hibernate

• Challenges in migrating Hibernat 2 to 3?
• http://www.deepakgaikwad.net/index.php/2009/03/14/complete-hibernate-tutorial-with-example.html?goback=%2Egde_43888_member_255672872
• http://www.hibernate-alternative.com/

JPA

JPA specification - Apache open JPA

Connection Pooling

Open-source softwares:

• Apache Commons DBCP
• c3p0
• BoneCP