From: "Jeremy Boynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > With the JDBC 2.0 extension and 3.0, DataSource became available as the > preferred mechanism. Ideally this would be via JNDI lookup (although > there is no standard provider and/or location for the binding in J2SE), > but as an alternative configuration can now be done using standard > JavaBean semantics (e.g. hard coding get/set calls, serialization (.ser > file), XML storage, reflection in conjunction with PropertyEditors, > etc.) This provides much more flexibility than specialized Driver code.
I think there is already a solution for this - to use a framework such as Spring. DataSources can presumably be registered as beans, and injected into client code without any need to know what the implementation looks like. Regards
