Like a lot of companies, Progress DataDirect will have a booth (we're in booth #3519 at Moscone West) at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld / JavaOne trade show. Unlike other companies, however, we're the only ones making a trio of data access experts -...
Everyone, myself included, likes to have an idea of what's coming in order to plan ahead more effectively. For example, if you knew that Apple was about to release a redesign to the iPhone in the next month, you might hold off on buying one until it's been released. Software professionals are no...
It’s interesting to note how often we hear someone say, “Well, I’m using Hibernate, so I don’t really care about JDBC.” In fact, many think they don’t even need a JDBC driver at all, not realizing that the driver operates under Hibernate.
Hibernate has a lot of benefits – it is flexible, and does a...
If you've never seen the above clip from the cult classic This is Spinal Tap, take a minute to watch it.
Since we first introduced the idea of JDBC Type 5 drivers to the Java community, one of the...