The book is designed to allow easy access to the information needed to develop your applications. The first three chapters contain common information for users developing DB2 programs with any of the supported programming languages, and should, therefore, be read by all users.
Chapter 4 contains information for building DB2 Java programs: environmental set-up information for specific platforms, as well as common information for developing JDBC applets and applications, and embedded SQL for Java (SQLJ) applets and applications, for all supported platforms.
The remaining chapters in the book are platform-specific "Building Applications" chapters. Each of these chapters gives detailed information for building DB2 applications with the supported languages (except for Java) on one of the supported platforms.
The appendices give important additional information on various topics.