SQL Maps and/or DAO

[Albert L. Sapp]

1.  Can someone explain to me how the DAO framework enhances the use of SQL 
Maps framework or is the DAO framework a replacement for SQL Maps 
framework?  Both of them seem to be used as transaction managers.  All I am 
wanting to do is some transaction processing against a Oracle database 
using a JDBC connection and SQL statements.

2.  When I look at the source code files for JPetStore, I can seem to 
follow what is happening.  It seems to only use SQL Maps.  Am I correct?

Once I know what the relationship between the two is, I may be able to 
figure out how to complete the project I am working on.  Right now, none of 
our dao.xml or sql-maps.xml files look very close to the pet store samples.

Thanks,
Al