It seems that every few years we embrace some new "trend" that trumpets the dawn of the corporate IT revolution. The trend dujour could very well become Enterprise Application Integration. But should we really be thinking Departmental Application Integration instead?
As software developers enter the new millennium, they are challenged to bring the value of the network to the enterprise, and to leverage the assets developed over the years into components of a ubiquitous computing environment.
With the availability of Java-stored procedures for DB2 for OS/390, the era of portable, vendor-neutral, database programming will really be with us. This article looks at how you can use the Java programming language with large-scale enterprise databases, namely DB2 for OS/390.