Client/Server Data Access with Java and XML

This text covers the following topics and discusses not only what they are and how to program, but also how different and competing technologies can work together: Java database access; JDBC, JSQL, ODMG mapping; object transaction processing; Microsoft's Viper, IBM's BOSS, BEA's Tuxedo/Iceberg; Java ORBS like JavaSoft's RMI, Visigenic's Java 3.0, JavaSoft's JOE, and DCOM for Java Web Database Access; Dynamic HTML, DataApplets, Data Beans, and Visual JavaScript; Java agents for database access; and mobile agents and data agents. There are also benchmarks and tests featuring tools from Sun, Symantec, IBM, Netscape, Oracle and Microsoft, General Magic and Visigenic.