Using Strongly Typed Interfaces with JPublisher

Summary

In this chapter, you learned what strongly typed interfaces are. You examined the JDBC standard interface, SQLData, and the Oracle extension interfaces, ORAData and ORADataFactory. You learned about the various options provided by JPublisher, a utility that generates custom classes mapping SQL objects to Java for you. You also learned, through examples, how to use JPublisher to generate custom classes that implement either SQLData or ORAData interfaces that allow you to retrieve and manipulate objects stored in the database. In the next chapter, we will examine how to use collections and references in a JDBC program.