M

Macintosh, 272

mail libraries, 4

maintenance, 37

map, displaying appropriate, 246–249

MapCanvas.java, 246–249

MapInfo.java, 249–250

mapping

to another database connectivity API. See Type 1 driver

ARRAY, 345–348

BIGINT, 181–182

BINARY, 182

BIT, 181

Blob or BLOB, 221

Boolean, 182

byte, 182

char or CHAR, 181

clob or CLOB, 179

DATALINK, 500

date or DATE, 430

DECIMAL, 181

DISTINCT, 179

double or DOUBLE, 181

entity beans, 200

FLOAT or float, 180–181

int or INTEGER, 180–181

JAVA_OBJECT, 93

LONGVARBINARY, 182

LONGVARCHAR, 458

NUMERIC, 181

REAL, 179–181

Ref or REF, 179

short, 113

SMALLINT, 180–181

String, 182

Struct or STRUCT, 511–512

time or TIME, 182

timestamp or TIMESTAMP, 182

TINYINT, 180–181

Unicode character stream, 468

VARBINARY, 182

VARCHAR, 181

Marimba Bongo, 253

marking intermediate points in transactions, 488

math functions, supported, 406

memory

closing connections, 62

closing result set, 88

Message Oriented Middleware (MOM), 40

messages, listing employees with pending, 124

metadata interfaces

connection, getting, 462

DatabaseMetaData, 278

dynamic data access, 178–183

Java database explorer example, 275

ParameterMetaData, 177–178

ResultSetMetaData, 174–177

usefulness, 161–162

Microsoft, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC). See ODBC)

Microsoft Access, cursors, nonsupport of, 135

Microsoft Windows, 272

middleware peer on server. See Type 3 driver

MiniSQL

sample driver, 59

sample URL, 58

modifying data, 18

modules

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), 20

Structured Query Language (SQL), defined, 16

MOM. See Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

money transfers

account balance and other controls, 255–256

Account.java class, 257–262

ATM panel, 256–257

money transfers continued

clock, updating (TimeT.java), 267

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) file, 257

NetBank.java class, 262–266

tables, creating (Data Definition Language (DDL)), 268–269

usefulness, 253

welcome screen, 254

Motif, 272

MPEG (Motion Pictures Experts Group), 221

MultilineLabel.java, 250–252

multimedia, API, 4

multimedia content. See Blob or BLOB

Multimedia Internet Mail Extension (MIME), 221

multiple-tier drivers, 22

multiple types, results, managing, 83–87

multitier application example

client class (CarSales.java), 334–340

client programs, 326–327

data structure, 324–325

described, 323–324

implementation, 328–334

interfaces, 330–331

remote method invocation (RMI) server, 340–341