Preface

This preface discusses the intended audience and conventions of the Oracle Database 2 Day + Java Developer's Guide.. It also includes a list of related Oracle documents that you can refer to for more information.

Audience

This guide is intended for application developers using Java to access and modify data in Oracle Database. This guide illustrates how to perform these tasks using a simple Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) application. This guide uses the Oracle JDeveloper integrated development environment (IDE) to create the application. This guide can be read by anyone with an interest in Java programming, but it assumes at least some prior knowledge of the following:

  • Java

  • Oracle PL/SQL

  • Oracle databases

Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Database documentation set:

  • Oracle Database JDBC Developer’s Guide

  • Oracle Database Java Developer’s Guide

  • Oracle Universal Connection Pool Developer’s Guide

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention Meaning

boldface

Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.

italic

Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.

monospace

Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.