Review by Billy Barron

"Java Database Programming" by Brian Jepsen (Wiley Computer Publishing; ISBNs 0-471-16518-2) is a book on Java Databases. The book does cover the material. It includes how to use JDBC, how to write a JDBC driver and even how to build an SQL database engine. However, I really wish Chapter 3 on JDBC itself was much longer and went into much more detail. I also felt that the code segments were too long and the prose too short. Chapter 11 ("Connecting to Databases Using Applets") had a lot of potential but then only glossed over this tricky subject.

Overall, if you are going to build a database engine that will be JDBC accessible, this is a good book. If you are just using JDBC (as I am), it is merely average.