Oh, the world of the XA compliant, two-phase commit.I think what you need is a good book on distributed programming, and a good book on
JDBC.
For learning distributed programming, this is the right book:
Concurrent and Distributed Computing in Java by Vijay K. Garg
If CORBA is your cup of tea, you might be interested in this read:
Implementing Distributed Systems with Java and CORBA There are more books on JDBC though.
For learning about JDBC, you can't beat the reference tutorials:
DBC API Tutorial and Reference by Maydene Fisher, Jon Ellis, Jonathan Bruce Also, this book is a bit bloated, but it's one of the most up to date JDBC books around:
JDBC Recipies: Released September 2005 Happy Java, and happy JDBC!
-Cameron McKenzie