Summary

This chapter defined weakly typed and strongly typed objects. You learned how to use the Struct interface to select objects as a collection of attributes. You also learned how to insert and update objects stored in tables using oracle.sql.STRUCT class methods. The steps involved in these operations tend to be more complicated than the straightforward relational alternative. You saw that this is particularly true when performing updates. In the next chapter, you will learn how to access and manipulate objects in tables using strongly typed objects.