Day 7. Using JDBC

Yesterday you completed your study of the second technology supported by WebLogic Server: JavaServer Pages. You covered an advanced topic in JavaServer Pages: the custom tag libraries. You covered the concepts of custom tag libraries, the various types of custom tags that can be built, the composition of a custom tag library, and the custom tag libraries provided by WebLogic Server. You built a custom tag library for the online bookstore application to gain hands-on experience in developing custom tag libraries.

Today, you will cover Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), another new technology supported by WebLogic Server. The topics under discussion today are concepts of Java Database Connectivity: JDBC driver types, WebLogic Server's support for JDBC, and connection pooling. This will provide the groundwork for studying advanced JDBC concepts in tomorrow's session.