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Learning Modular Java Programming

By : Tejaswini Mandar Jog
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Learning Modular Java Programming

By: Tejaswini Mandar Jog

Overview of this book

Modular programming means dividing an application into small parts and then developing it. It is an approach taken by developers to build applications and helps them add efficiency in their development process, thus making it more effective. The book starts with the fundamentals of Modular Programming. Then we move on to the actual implementation, where we teach developers how to divide an application into different modules or layers (such as presentation, execution, security, lifecycle, services, and so on) for better management. Once readers are well-versed in these modules and their development, the book shows how to create bindings in order to join these different modules and form a complete application. Next, the readers will learn how to manage these modules through dependency injection. Later, we move on to testing; readers will learn how to test the different modules of an application. The book ends by teaching readers how to maintain different versions of their application and how to modify it. By the end of the book, readers will have a good understanding of modular programming and will be able to use it to build applications with Java.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Interaction of Java with relational databases


Java is a pure object-oriented programming (OOP) language while relational databases use sequential programming language (SQL). Both of them have their own data type, methods and programming techniques. OOP manages objects where SQL manages tables. It is pretty clear that both of them cannot communicate directly with each other due to the unavailability of compatible language support. Direct communication is not possible so the unit is required to make them communicate even though these two are fundamentally different. The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) architecture will be managed by JDBC APIs from a Java application which helps to manage the incompetency. The one which manages the language and data type difference is DriverManager. The following figure illustrates this:

JDBC architecture

The JDBC driver is an implementation that defines the interface in JDBC API for interacting with the database server.

Types of JDBC drivers

The four types...