Craig Russell wrote: > Hi David, > > My only issue is with the term "Physical Connection". > > Connections are logical, not physical. Ethernet cables, adapters, wires, > RAM, disk drives are physical. Ports, sockets, connections, database > tables and columns are logical. > > I really don't like using physical to describe the lowest level of > connection. Isn't there another term that conveys the correct > information, like Hard Connection, or Socket Connection, Port > Connection, or simply Connection?
'physical connection' is the term used by the JDBC 3.0 spec, so I think it is the correct term to use here. In the embedded case the physical connection does not use a socket or a port so using such terms would be misleading. Dan.
