A database connection in a swing application

hi ,
i am developping an intranet stabdalone swing application based on a jdbc connection to oracle8i data server.
in fact i am interested in keeping my user authentification encrypted while this connection is done! is there any method to do it ! i read about SSL but is it supported by web application ! i have a client-server simple connection !
please help !

Hello Levi,
You can to do this form:
String appModule = "yourAppmodule";
String config = "yourAppmodule"+ "Local";
ApplicationModule am = Configuration.createRootApplicationModule(appModule, config);
ConnectionMetada cm = am.getTransaction().getConnectionMetadata();
DriverManager.registerDriver(new OracleDriver());
Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(cm.getJdbcURL());You can to see this threads:
Retrieve Database Connection
Getting the Connection object out of ApplicationModule
Regards,
Renan

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