With the popularity of Java language, JDBC is now perhaps the most commonly used API to access databases. Oracle is one of the premium databases of the world. This book is about accessing and manipulating data in Oracle using JDBC, with a focus on performance and scalability. Why another book on JDBC and Oracle, you may ask? I wrote this book because I realized that most of the other JDBC books available today more or less regurgitate the JDBC specification and the Oracle JDBC documentation that is freely available on the Internet. This book is different. The central aim of.