How to return the newly generated sequence id for an INSERT statement

Question

A record is to be inserted into a table with a sequence for the primary key. The newly inserted sequence value is to returned on successful insertion. Is it possible to do all this in a single statement (say executeUpdate or any other) using java.sql.* ?
E.g.: - A student record is to be inserted into the STUDENT table. There is a sequence (by name Student_ID_SEQ) on the primary key Student_ID. Student_ID_SEQ.nextval will generate the new sequence id which will be provided as input to the SQL statement (say statement.executeUpdate) along with other student attribute values. On insertion the created sequence id should be returned. And all this should happen in a single statement (single call to database). Stored Procedures can accomplish this. But is this feasible without the use of Stored Procedures?
Thanks.

Answer 1

a better aproach is to generate the auto key on the
database side, not on the application side.That's his problem - since the database is supplying the key for the new record his application which executed the SQL has no way to identify the record that was just added. I just create the key on the app server and accept the likelihood of overlap (which is extremely small).
Here is a more technical explanation:
Table Person
   ID,
   Name,
   Phone Number,
   Age
}The field ID is an autonumber, and all other fields are not unique.
Now, when this code executes:
PreparedStatement pst = conn.prepareStatement("Insert Into Person (Name, Phone Number, Age) Values ?, ?, ?");
pst.setString(1, "John");
pst.setString(2, "405-444-5555");
pst.setInt(3, 44);
pst.executeUpdate();How can the app determine the ID of the person just added since no query is possible which is guaranteed to select just the record that was inserted?
Since I am generally against Stored Procedures I would develop a way to insure that your keys were unique and generate them inside the app server.