See http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/docs/guide/jdbc/index.html for information on Sun's [Java] class to provide a generic interface to databases. This is Java's equivalent to Window's [ODBC] . [MrPersister] is a high-level database access library built on top of JDBC, for use by [Jacl] and [TclBlend] ---- This was an inspiration (but not a source of much in the way of design decisions) for [TDBC]. <> Database