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Build a Derby calendar, Part 1: Understanding JDBC

Nicholas Chase (ibm@nicholaschase.com), Freelance Writer, Backstop Media

Nicholas Chase has been involved in Web site development for companies such as Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Nick has been a high school physics teacher, a low-level radioactive waste facility manager, an online science fiction magazine editor, a multimedia engineer, an Oracle instructor, and the Chief Technology Officer of an interactive communications company. He is the author of several books, including XML Primer Plus .

Summary: Build a calendar and reminder application using the Java™ language and the Apache Derby database in Part 1 of this three-part tutorial series. This tutorial starts by showing you how to install the database and exploring interactions with it through Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). Parts 2 and 3 will examine different options for including Derby in your application and Derby's transactional capabilities as we move from a single-user to a multiuser system. Finally, we'll move to a multimode system that includes a Web interface.

Date: 13 Sep 2005
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (111 KB | 34 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Before you start

In this tutorial, you'll begin the process of building a calendar and reminder system that uses Apache Derby as its database back end. In Parts 2 and 3 of this series, you'll add two different user interfaces to the application; but for now the tutorial concentrates on accessing the data and on setting appropriate reminders using e-mail.

You'll learn about the following:

Basic Derby concepts
Installing and interacting with Derby in embedded mode
Connecting to Derby using JDBC
Adding data to Derby using JDBC
Selecting and viewing Derby data using JDBC
Updating existing Derby data using JDBC
Using the Java language to send e-mail reminders

Prerequisites

This tutorial was created under the assumption that you're familiar with programming in the Java language, but unfamiliar with JDBC and Apache Derby. Familiarity with SQL is helpful, but not required.

System requirements

To follow along with this tutorial, you need:

Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2EE) 1.4.2 or higher. You must have the Java Developer Kit, not just the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Download Java code from the Sun Web site.
Apache Derby, which you can download from the Apache Software Foundation.
JavaMail. To send e-mail reminders, you need mail.jar, which is now part of the Java package. You also need activation.jar, downloadable as part of the JavaBeans activation framework. Make sure both files are in your class path.
A text editor or Integrated Development Environment (IDE). You can easily create Derby applications using an IDE, such as Eclipse, but I'm going to assume you're using a simple text editor.