Understanding SQL & Java Together: A Guide to SQLJ, JDBC, and Related Technologies
A comprehensive guide to how the marriage of SQL and Java is forging a new era in object-oriented databases.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Understanding SQL & Java Together: A Guide to SQLJ, JDBC, and Related Technologies
7.11: A Java-SQL Translation Dictionary
7.11 A Java-SQL Translation Dictionary
Earlier in this chapter, we promised you a dictionary that provides a correlation between the terms used in the Java object model and those used in the SQL object model. Table 7.3 contains the manifestation of that promise.
| Java term | SQL term |
|---|---|
| Class | Type (especially structured type) |
| Superclass | Supertype |
| Subclass | Subtype |
| Instance | Value |
| Object | Row in a table of a structured type |
| Primitive type | Predefined or built-in data type |
| Method | Method (also function and procedure) |
| Constructor | Initializer |
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