An airhacks.fm conversation with Gerald Venzl (@geraldvenzl) about:
discussion about the evolution of Oracle's annual conference from OpenWorld to CloudWorld,
the JavaOne conference,
explanation of JDBC driver types and their evolution,
Oracle's thin JDBC driver becoming the preferred option,
availability of Oracle JDBC drivers on Maven Central,
proprietary features of Oracle's JDBC driver including Continuous Query Notification (CQN) and Application Continuity,
comparison of CQN to Change Data Capture (CDC) and CQRS patterns,
Oracle's Flashback Data Archive for auditing and time travel capabilities,
Oracle's Advanced Queuing and Transactional Event Queues,
ORDS REST APIs,
Oracle product page,
Oracle JDBC client libraries,
the plug-in mechanism implemented in early Java versions for JDBC drivers using Class.forName and static initializers,
Gerald Venzl's online presence and recent blog post about running Oracle database on Raspberry Pi
Gerald Venzl on twitter: @geraldvenzl