Barry writes:
> A customer of ours is trying to use JDBC but unfortunately
> the documentation he received from HP was sparse.

The only HP documentation I've seen is the 6.0 Express 1 Communicator
article and the README.JDBC.SYS file (I think that's the name) that comes
with the software.

None of this includes enough of an introduction to JDBC to really get
started if you haven't used JDBC before.  There are several excellent books
on JDBC and numerous free on-line resources such as Sun's "Java Tutorial"
at:

   http://www.javasoft.com/docs/books/tutorial

The second edition of Bruce Eckel's excellent "Thinking in Java" book is
out, and you can get it both at your local bookstore or as a free download
from:

   http://www.bruceeckel.com

His C++ book (now in two volumes, newly revised) is also good and also
available free.

G.