Review by Billy Barron

"Database Programming with Java and JDBC" by George Reese (O'Reilly; ISBN 1-56592-270-0) is a book that I was interested in at first glance. I've exchanged e-mail and tech edited some work George has done for another publisher. A good author combined with an excellent publisher looked to be a good combination.

This book covers a wide range of material. From database theory to SQL to persistence to RMI instead of a lot of JDBC. The writing is very clear and many programming examples are given.

In the JDBC marketplace, I've looked at three books. "Java Database Programming" by Jepsen is a below average book. "JDBC Developer's Resource" is a good hardcore JDBC book. Reese's book is a good book if you need to know JDBC and all the association technologies, then this is the book to get.