Articles by John Goodson

Best Practices for SOA: Building a Data Services Layer

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:30:00 EDT

These days nearly every sizable organization has either implemented some form of SOA or has it on their roadmap. They quickly find that SOA efforts tend to expand like spider webs, eventually touching every corner of IT as well as the business itself. Due to the vital role that data plays both in business and systems operations, database architects, information specialists, data integration experts, and anyone responsible for data persistence in an organization are increasingly being called on to contribute to their organization's SOA initiatives - whether or not this was intended at the onset.

Java Feature — JDBC 4.0

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:00:00 EST

It's been over three years since the JDBC Expert Group held its first meeting to gather requirements, requests, and pipe dreams for the JDBC 4.0 specification. In that meeting, we discussed a wide variety of topics, including performance enhancements, clarifications on the existing JDBC 3.0 specification, and Ease of Development features. Unbelievably, everything but the kitchen sink ended up making it into the release. In this article, we'll look at several key features that made the enhancement list for JDBC 4.0, and we'll discuss why those features are important.

JDBC 4.0: A Significant Advance on the Standard and Features Worth the Wait

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:45:00 EDT

Pooling is great - except it's not very tunable. It's hard to map end users back to connections in the pool, and if a connection ever becomes invalid inside the pool, expunging only that connection from the pool is nearly impossible; JDBC 4.0 addresses all these drawbacks.

JDBC 3.0 - Something for Everyone

Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 EDT

There was no ticker tape parade to accompany the release of the JDBC 3.0 specification, but many will be pleasantly surprised at its list of enhancements that include everything from performance-tuning options to support for extended-level database features.

Making Your WebSphere Apps Run Faster and Jump Higher

Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:00:00 EST

What's the best way to develop and fine-tune your WebSphere applications to run faster, jump higher…and make fewer trips to the database? When creating optimized WebSphere applications that access data on your DB2 database, what kinds of challenges do you face? Creating DB2-enabled WebSphere apps involves the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API, which can be a challenge in itself.

Use XML Inside Existing Applications

Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:00:00 EST

By now, everyone knows that XML is all about data. Unfortunately, that's about all most people know about it. Depending on whom you talk to, XML is projected to be the framework for replacing all software currently in existence or it's seen as an interesting niche technology. The future of XML is certainly debatable, but it's clear that XML is a 'hot' standards-based technology for defining the interchange of data.

Deployment Of Java Server Pages

Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:00:00 EDT

While Java databases have become essential for Web applications, developing performance-oriented Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) applications can be challenging. But by following tried-and-true approaches, it is possible to develop and fine-tune JDBC applications to make them run faster, jump higher, and make fewer trips to the database.