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In this chapter, we have seen how PostgreSQL databases can be accessed from Java language programs using JDBC.
The JDBC API continues to evolve. The JDBC 3 driver particularly saw significant changes, and the Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.5 platform also introduces some minor changes. Also starting to appear are persistence layers, such as Hibernate and Java Data Objects (JDO), which help to bridge the object world of the Java programmer to the relational world of the SQL-based database.
In the next chapter, we will look at how to access PostgreSQL databases from C#.
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(2005). Accessing PostgreSQL from Java. In: Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0018-5_17
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