Building on the Java Servlet technology, JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology is the core server-side Java architecture for generating dynamic content. One source of dynamic content is the relational database. To manage everything from online communities to e-commerce transactions, Web sites use relational databases to store all sorts of information: catalog items, images, text, data about registered members, and so on. This article discusses the application of JSP technology to relational databases through Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). JDBC is the means by which Java programs work with relational databases. |