Jonathan Bruce's Blog: Community: Java Specification Requests Archives

Posted by jonbruce on July 02, 2004 at 12:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Both John Goodson and I were very impressed by how many people attended our JDBC 4.0 - The Next Generation API session at this year's JavaOne. I think I stopped counting at the 1100 mark!

Without exception, we had an excellent set of questions this year and equally was very impressed with all the feedback and of course the enthusiam from many attendess who seemed excited by the upcoming content of JDBC 4.0. So I want to harness the power of the Java.Net weblog portal and capture everybody's feedback. Please use the feedback tool below to send us your questions or comments.

As a quick reminder of the major themes of this talks we talked about the following

JDBC Ease-of-Developement - Introducing a set of new API's and leveraging annotations and generics to improve SQL data access from the Java Platform.
SQL:2003 - Defining how to handle XML with the JDBC API
Connection Enhancements - Allowing tagging of connections
Conenction and Statement Pool Enhancements - Connection Striping
LOB Enhancements - Ability to create and close LOB objects
Other features - ROWID, Date & Timestamp performance improvements, and SQL State mappings for Exception handling.

I will be taking these concerns and driving them through the expert group process. When we reach our first specification milesone (EDR), you have a chance to see how this will all fit together. Naturally, at this stage you have an opportunity to send additional feedback.

Over the next few weeks, I will be posting additional BLOGs to get a measure of the developers communities feeling on various API proposals that are on-going in JDBC 4.0 API.

Until next time, here are a few links on other BLOGs that have referenced JDBC 4.0 at JavaOne:

Malcolm Davis Java.net WebLog

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