John Goodson is a JDBC Expert Panel Member and VP of Research and Development at DataDirect Technologies. Check out his Tech Talk on TheServerSide.com, where he discusses Database Access Technologies.

Java has become increasingly popular as a server-side programming language for database-powered Web applications. Those applications’ business logic-handling methods must work with data from backend ...

The end goal of database design is to be able to transform a logical data model into an actual physical database. A logical data model is required before you can even begin to design a physical ...