It consists of over fifty utility programs for database access and support, batch updating, and report generation.

For example, many frameworks provide libraries for database access, templating frameworks and session management, and they often promote code reuse.

These services may include but are not limited to printer, web or database access.

It provides unidirectional database access, that means you can traverse data obtained from a database table only in the forward direction.

When an application needs database access, it requests a connection from the pool.