From Overview of JDBC and its use with CORBA or Java RMI CPS616 Technologies of Information Age -- Spring 1998. byNancy McCracken(Sangetta Aggarwal, Udayan Parvate, Tom Pulikal)
ResultSetMetaData - A ResultSetMetaData object can be used to find out about the types and properties of the columns in a ResultSet.
Statement - A Statement object is used for executing a static SQL statement and obtaining the results produced by it