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Among various sharding implementations, Hibernate Shards is possibly the most popular in the world of Java technology. For some shops, sharding means being able to keep a trusted RDBMS in place without sacrificing data scalability or system performance. In this installment of the Java development 2.0 series, find out when sharding works, and when it doesn't, and then get your hands busy sharding a simple application capable of handling terabytes of data.

JDBC, or Java Database Connectivity, is one of the most frequently used packages in the entire JDK, and yet few Java developers use it to its fullest — or most up-to-date — capacity. This article offers an introduction to newer JDBC features.

Learn about writing Java code that interfaces with DB2 databases. You will acquire the fundamental skills required to develop Java applications for DB2. You will see how easy it is to connect to a DB2 database from a Java application, use JDBC to read and update data in a DB2 database, Use SQL for Java (SQLJ) to read and update data in a DB2 database, and how to troubleshoot a DB2 Java application. If you dont have DB2 installed, you can download ( http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/im/udbexp/?S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR&ca=dgr-lnxw01DB2-EC ) DB2 Express-C here at no-cost.