Java Database Connectivity
April 9th, 2006I have recently begun working with databases in Java and I am really starting to like it. It is so much easier to store and retrieve data in a database than I have ever worked with. Flat files are just a pain, XML can be pretty tricky, and both of these are incredibly slow compared to databases!
We’ve been using MySQL in my Advanced Java class and another cool feature about this suite is that it is free! Both Java and MySQL are free platforms and getting up and going with them is not bad at all. I actually got my homework working within an hour. Deployment gets kind of tricky, but once everything is set up the data flows really smooth and FAST.
It is a very interesting story. Thanks!