Part V

Performance and Scalability

This part consists of chapters that discuss the Oracle Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) features that enhance performance, such as Statement caching, implicit connection caching, run-time connection load balancing, and Oracle Call Interface (OCI) connection pooling. It also includes a chapter that provides information about Oracle performance extensions, such as update batching and row prefetching.

Part V contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 20, "Statement and Result Set Caching"

• Chapter 21, "Implicit Connection Caching"

• Chapter 22, " Run-Time Connection Load Balancing"

• Chapter 23, "Performance Extensions"

• Chapter 24, "OCI Connection Pooling"

• Chapter 25, "Oracle Advanced Queuing"

• Chapter 26, "Database Change Notification"