Preface

Topics in this preface are:

• What This Guide Has to Offer

• Your Comments Are Welcome

What This Guide Has to Offer

Each chapter in this guide presents an Oracle8i Supplied Java Package. Interfaces, classes, and exceptions are summarized in a table, and then each is presented in alphabetical order, with its syntax, a member summary, and an inherited member summary. This is then followed by the details of the fields, constructors, and methods.

The first publication of this guide is release 2 (8.1.6) in December of 1999.

For more information, Java programmers should see:

• Oracle8i JDBC Developer's Guide and Reference

• Oracle8i Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals

• Oracle8i Application Developer's Guide - Advanced Queuing

• Oracle8i Data Cartridge Developer's Guide.

Your Comments Are Welcome

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