This is the third in a series of postings outlining the basics of best practices when coding against Oracle in the various languages.  In Oracle Performance Survival Guide (and in it's predecessor Oracle SQL High Performance Tuning) I emphasise the need to use bind variables and array processing when writing Oracle programs.   The book provides examples of both in PL/SQL and Java, while these postings outline the techniques in other languages. 

Previous postings covered .NET languages and perl.