In an exclusive interview with eWEEK, Java creator James Gosling discusses a series of issues he earlier declined to take public, including why he left Oracle.

The Netbeans Java environment lets you create a connection to a database and retrieve records from the database to display in your Java forms.

This tutorial shows JDBC and PostgreSQL used, along with JDBC URLs and downloaded database drivers from Maven, to create simple Postgres CRUD apps.

Here's a quick JDBC with HSQLDB tutorial to get you up and running with Java database connectivity and the popular HyperSQL database.