i know about JDBC
, actually i am to abstain from using a RDBMS.i fact i am desinging my own mini-dbms which provides for concurrency,transactions and relationships.hence my database connectivity will be through a bare socket from the client to the databse server application.
thanks for the info on sockets. , as i proceed with my project, i will need to inquire about the types of socket exceptions that can be thrown. i will come back to ask about that.Thanks again.