Rowsets - a JavaBean component that can contain a set of rows from a result set. |
JNDI - the Java Naming and Directory Interface will use logical names to connect to a database and driver. |
Connection pooling - a cache of open connections. |
Distributed Transaction Support - allows a JDBC driver to support a standard two-phase commit protocol used by the Java Transaction API. This will enable transactions to be put into JavaBeans. |