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D atabases have become an integral part of our modern day life. We are an information -
driven society. Database technology has a direct impact on our daily lives. Decisions are
routinely made by organizations based on the information collected and stored in databases.
A record company may decide to market certain albums in selected regions based
on the music preference of teenagers. Grocery stores display more popular items at the
eye level and reorders are based on the inventories taken at regular intervals. Other
examples include patients ’ records in hospitals, customers ’ account information in banks,
book orders by the libraries, club memberships, auto part orders, winter cloth stock by
department stores, and many others.
In addition to database management systems, in order to effectively apply and implement
databases in real industrial or commercial systems, a good graphic user interface
(GUI) is needed to enable users to access and manipulate their records or data in databases.
NetBeans IDE is an ideal candidate to be selected to provide this GUI functionality.
Unlike other programming languages, Java is a kind of language that has advantages,
such as easy to earn and easy to be understood, with little learning curves. Beginning from
Java 1.0, Sun has integrated a few programming languages, such as C + + , JavaFX, and PHP,
with some frameworks into dynamic models that make Internet and Web programming
easy and simple, and any language integrated in this model can be used to develop professional
and effi cient Web applications that can be used to communicate with others via
Internet.
This book is mainly designed for college students and software programmers who
want to develop practical and commercial database programming with Java and relational
databases, such as Microsoft Access, SQL Server 2008, and Oracle Database 10 g XE. The
book provides a detailed description about the practical considerations and applications
in database programming with Java and authentic examples and detailed explanations.
More important, a new writing style is developed and implemented in this book, combined
with real examples, to provide readers with a clear picture as how to handle the
database programming issues in NetBeans IDE environment. |
