X-Original-To: pgsql-interfaces-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5395C9DC9A8 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:33:16 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31809-01 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:33:17 -0400 (AST) Received: from svr4.postgresql.org (svr4.postgresql.org [66.98.251.159]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3078A9DC80F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:33:14 -0400 (AST) Received: from mx5.net.nih.gov (mx5.net.nih.gov [165.112.130.36]) by svr4.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5565AF073 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:33:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx5.net.nih.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx5.net.nih.gov (8.12.10/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k0HLXESW002094 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:33:14 -0500 Received: from [128.231.145.14] (holmes.nhgri.nih.gov [128.231.145.14]) by mx5.net.nih.gov (8.12.10/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k0HLXETZ002080 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:33:14 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.1.051004 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:33:13 -0500 Subject: Java connections to postgres From: Sean Davis To: "pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org" Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Java connections to postgres Thread-Index: AcYbrZ6N3R0DnoegEdq6QwANkzVl6A== Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.123 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.123] X-Spam-Score: 0.123 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200601/34 X-Sequence-Number: 5950 I am a totally new user to java and was wondering about a couple of details: 1) Is there a way to do "bulk" loading using something akin to SQL copy when using JDBC and connecting to postgresql? 2) (Slightly OT) Is there a useful ORM (object-relational-mapper) for java that costs $0? I am usually a perl user, and there are several good ones available. Thanks, Sean