Preface

This Preface introduces you to Oracle Database 2 Day + Java Developer's Guide, by discussing the intended audience and conventions of this document. It also includes a list of related Oracle documents that you can refer to for more information.

Audience

This guide is intended for application developers using Java to access and modify data in Oracle Database. This guide illustrates how to perform these tasks using a simple Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) application. This guide uses the Oracle JDeveloper integrated development environment (IDE) to create the application. This guide can be read by anyone with an interest in Java programming, but it assumes at least some prior knowledge of the following:

• Java

• Oracle PL/SQL

• Oracle databases

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Database documentation set:

• Oracle JDeveloper Installation Guide, 10g Release 10.1.3 and JDeveloper Online Documentation on Oracle Technology Network at

  http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/jdev.html

• Oracle Database JDBC Developer's Guide and Reference, 11g Release 1 (11.1)

• Oracle Database Java Developer's Guide, 11g Release 1 (11.1)

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: