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"William F. Gilreath" wrote:
> Hello,
>   I'm searching for information about the use of JDBC in industry, as part
> of advocating its use. Does anyone know of any online surveys or information
> about JDBC useage? Thanks in advance for your help, -- Will

Hi William.
My expertise is JDBC. I am from WebLogic, who merged with BEA. We were the
first all-Java company, formed in 1995, providing the WebLogic Application
Server, as well as JDBC drivers for Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQLServer and
Informix before anyone else, including those DBMS vendors. If you would like,
you can certainly ask me about what I've seen.
   Tell my who your audience is, to whom you want to advocate JDBC. Is there
any specific resistence you want to overcome, or is it just a non-Java-aware
audience?

The way to sell JDBC is as a small part of the way to exploit the opportunities
presented by the internet, with it's burgeoning population of generic browser
clients wanting ever-increasing access to a wealth of diverse unconnected backend
systems. This new world has done two things:

1 - It has killed client-server as an Enterprise architecture.
2 - It has made Java the de facto language for the middle tier.

   Client-server is dead because clients are increasingly thin and generic,
and because there are too many new clients. An E-business will essentially
want anyone on the internet to have some access to and possibly affect the
company DBMS contents in some form or another. A DBMS cannot do what it does
best if it has to also handle a myriad of ad-hoc client connection requests:
It doesn't scale.
    An intelligent middle tier is crucial to concentrate and handle incoming
client requests, and multiplex their data requests over fewer dedicated DBMS
lines, and cache DBMS data to unburden the DBMS from endless repeat queries.
   The paragons of this new middle tier architecture are the Java Application
servers, with their rich, vendor-neutral J2EE APIs including JDBC, allowing a
quick clean solution for browser-based clients to interact with complex
cooperating applications which can tap the various backend services in a
standard way which minimizes platform, vendor, protocol, and proprietary
dependencies, as well as doing intelligent data caching and DBMS connection
multiplexing.

Joe Weinstein at BEA, the home of WebLogic
-- 

PS: Folks: BEA WebLogic is expanding rapidly, with both entry and advanced positions
for people who want to work with Java, XML, SOAP and E-Commerce infrastructure products.
We have jobs at Nashua NH, Liberty Corner NJ, San Francisco and San Jose CA.
Send resumes to joe@bea.com