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jTDS Documentation

As you might expect jTDS is not 100% documented, but there is a lot of information lying around and we are currently working on organizing all this information into something that's easy to use. For now, there's the FAQ, the javadoc-generated HTML, the (reverse engineered) TDS 7.0 protocol specification, various benchmark results and a feature matrix. If you are interested in helping us or have any kind of related documentation, please let us know.

Here are the links. For jTDS users:

• The Frequently Asked Questions page. This is where you'll find the answers to the most common questions but also detailed information on using jTDS. Check it out first if you never used jTDS before.
• The jTDS feature matrix. The fastest way to check whether jTDS has everything you need or not.
• Data types supported by jTDS.
• Benchmark results. We have benchmarked jTDS against some well-known commercial drivers and of course the Microsoft driver and the JDBC-ODBC bridge, using two different benchmarks, provided by two leading commercial driver vendors: i-net software and JNetDirect. Here are the results of the i-net test: BenchTest 2.1 for MS SQL Server. The JNetDirect license precludes publication of performance test results. However, jTDS is generally faster than all other drivers.
• Information about jTDS ResultSet support. What ResultSet types are supported and some guidelines on how to ensure correct behavior.

For developers and those interested in finding out more about jTDS and/or SQL Server:

• jTDS API documentation (javadoc-generated). Please note that this might be somewhat out of date, it's pretty hard remembering to update it. If you want to make sure you get the last version, go to the download page and get the jTDS source package. It contains the last javadoc-generated documentation.
• Some TDS 7.0 documentation. Incomplete (since it's obtained by reverse-engineering the data stream between SQL Server and jTDS or various other clients) but it contains enough new information to make it interesting and useful. Be sure to also check out the documentation provided by the FreeTDS project, as it pretty much complements the stuff we have.
• Documentation on SQL Server API server cursors (i.e. the undocumented stored procedures used in the background by all the Microsoft client implementations to handle cursors). This is some pretty new stuff, assembled from scratch by the jTDS Project, but it's quite complete.
• Interested in joining the project? Here's a short document describing how you can become a project member. You don't have to do anything you don't want to, just have fun writing code, tests, documentation, helping out people or reverse engineer M$'s well kept secrets.

If you haven't found what you were looking for, make sure to check out the jTDS forums or the project trackers (bugs, patches, support requests and requests for enhancements). Of course, you can also post your question in the appropriate forum and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.