For those in the J2EE world, one of the hottest, most contentious topics that has arisen is what went wrong with EJB, version 2. For those not familiar with the subject, I’ll try to provide a brief description. In 2001, Sun released a specification for connecting a Java object, called an Enterprise Java [...]

I love reading Alex’s The Daily WTF and I noticed the recent Finally WTF is relevant to JDBC in an important way. All *good* JDBC developers already know you should close your result sets, statements, and connections (in that order) in a finally block when you are done with them, but do you all [...]