Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial you should have a good knowledge of the Java programming language. A good way to get to that point is to work through all the basic and some of the specialized trails in The JavaTrademarked Tutorial, Mary Campione et al., (Addison-Wesley, 2000). In particular, you should be familiar with relational database and security features described in the trails listed in Table 1.

Table 1 Prerequisite Trails in The JavaTrademarked Tutorial 
Trail
URL
JDBC
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc
Security
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/security1.2