Insert and Retrieve Objects

As an interface to relational databases, JDBC is designed to retrieve and manipulate traditional SQL data types.

Sybase IQ also provides abstract data types in the form of Java classes. The way you access these Java classes using JDBC depends on whether you want to insert or retrieve the objects.

• Retrieve Objects
  You can retrieve objects and their fields and methods by:
• Insert Objects
  From a server-side Java class, you can use the JDBC setObject method to insert an object into a column with Java class data type.