Mark Biamonte is Program Manager for DataDirect?s Connect for JDBC product. He is responsible for defining the technical features and future direction of the Connect for JDBC product. Mark has over 20 years of experience designing computer hardware and software. He has been working with Java and JDBC for over 5 years and database APIs for over 7 years. He is currently an active member of the JDBC Expert Group defining the next version of the JDBC specification. Mark holds a master of science in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt.
It's been over three years since the JDBC Expert Group held its first meeting
to gather requirements, requests, and pipe dreams for the JDBC 4.0
specification. In that meeting, we discussed a wide variety of topics,
including performance enhancements, clarifications on the existing JDBC 3.0
specification, and Ease of Development features. Unbelievably, everything but
the kitchen sink ended up making it into the release. In this article, we'll
look at several key features that made the enhancement list for JDBC 4.0, and
we'll discuss why those features are important.
At the time of this publication, the JDBC 4.0 specification should be close
to shipping as part of Java SE 6.0. The key goals of the JDBC Expert Group
were to align with the most important features of the SQL 2003 specification,
to provide constructs that improve developer productivity (sometimes called ... (more)
Mark Biamonte is Program Manager for DataDirect?s Connect for JDBC product. He is responsible for defining the technical features and future direction of the Connect for JDBC product. Mark has over 20 years of experience designing computer hardware and software. He has been working with Java and JDBC for over 5 years and database APIs for over 7 years. He is currently an active member of the JDBC Expert Group defining the next version of the JDBC specification. Mark holds a master of science in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt.
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