Programmer's Reference

jConnect for JDBC

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The Sybase jConnect for JDBC Programmer's Reference describes the jConnect for JDBC product and explains how to use it to access data stored in relational database management systems.

Audience

This manual is for database-application programmers who are familiar with the Java programming language, JDBC, and Transact-SQL^® , the Sybase version of Structured Query Language.

Related Documents

You may find the following documents helpful:

• The Sybase jConnect for JDBC Installation Guide
• The Sybase jConnect for JDBC Release Bulletin
• The javadoc documentation of jConnect extensions to JDBC. The Java Development Kit (JDK) from Java Software contains a javadoc script for extracting comments from source-code files. This script has been used to extract documentation of jConnect packages, classes, and methods from jConnect source files. When you install jConnect using the full installation or javadocs option, the javadoc information is placed in the javadocs directory:
  
  Installation_directory/docs/en/javadocs

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Conventions

This manual uses the following font and syntax conventions:

• Classes, interfaces, methods, and packages are shown in Helvetica within paragraph text. For example:
  
  SybConnection class
  
  SybEventHandler interface
  
  setBinaryStream() method
  
  com.sybase.jdbcx package
• Objects, instances, and parameter names are shown in italics. For example:
  
  "In the following example, ctx is a DirContext object."
  
  "eventHdler is an instance of the SybEventHandler class that you implement."
  
  "The classes parameter is a string that lists specific classes you want to debug."
• Code fragments are shown in a monospaced font. Variables in code fragments (that is, words that stand for values that you fill in) are italicized. For example:

  Connection  con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:
      sybase:Tds:host:port",  props);
  

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