Chapter 12. JDO and JDBC

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This chapter compares JDO with JDBC, another Java persistence API. JDBC is a standard designed specifically to access relational database systems. Although many readers may be familiar with the JDBC API, for those who are not or would like to refresh their memories, the first part of this chapter outlines JDBC fundamentals, including an overview of the latest JDBC 3.0 edition. The second part then compares JDO with JDBC.