Re: Need Relational Database Capabilties in Java

JAF wrote:

The two biggest pluses I see to the relational model for DB, and
please comment on my ideas here for Java since I am new to Java, are
the data is easy to maintain and it is easy to train end users to
understand relational data and to do heir own reports.

If you want to interact with the DBMS at the level of SQL queries, tables,
rows, and so on, then that is provided by JDBC.

There's a tendency in the Java world to /assume/ that anyone interacting with a
DBMS will want to use a Object-Relational mapping tool (such as Hibernate) to
handle the translation from the world of relational data into the world of
objects, but that assumption is not necessarily valid. The data can perfectly
well be represented (in Java) as objects from the relational domain (rows, etc)
rather than being automatically transcribed into objects from the target domain
(customers, etc). And if you are already happy working with those concepts,
then I don't (myself) see much benefit in changing.

-- chris



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