I assume you are already aware of annotations and generics, which were introduced in Java with J2SE 5.0. JDBC 4.0 introduces annotations and the generic DataSet. This change aims to simplify execution ...

Neat. Are you using DataSource to get those connections? If not you should. Yes, the custom ConnectionPool uses DataSource. conn.close () isn't called in the case where stmt.close () throws an ...

Persistence is one of the greatest challenges for building applications. There are many options for building persistence layers. Data Access Objects (DAO) is a popular design pattern for building the ...