Written entirely in Java, the SequeLink JDBC driver was thread-safe, reliable and secure. It used encryption and multilevel authentication to keep database access packets confidential and authentic, and the Java Proxy component did not decrypt packets as it routed them to and from the database server. WebLogic jdbcKona jdbcKona wasn't the fastest or smallest Java data access driver we tested, but it may have been the smartest. Running on top of JDBC, jdbcKona abstracted the process of data access into dataset, record and value concepts. In jdbcKona terms, a dataset contains records that in turn contain value objects.
Value objects hold datatype attributes, as well as data values.
With jdbcKona's help, we didn't have to pay close attention in our Java programs to details like a data item's structure or type. In a useful extension to the JDBC standard, jdbcKona let us navigate both backward and forward through fetched result sets. It gave us access to Oracle sequences via a Sequences object. The product pooled database connections among clients, letting many clients issue SQL statements through just a few connections. It gave our test software access to SQL Server and Adaptive Server databases, but not to DB2 and Oracle.