Meta data about the SDOResultSet is exposed through the com.progress.open4gl.SDOResultSetMetaData interface. An object that implements SDOResultSetMetaData is returned using the SDOResultSet.getMetaData() method. The interface, com.progress.open4gl.SDOResultSetMetaData, is an extended subset of the standard JDBC 2 java.sql.ResultSetMetaData interface.

SDOResultSetMetaData works with both JDK 1.1.x and JDK 1.2; therefore, much of the Java 1.2 functionality (standard JDBC ResultSetMetaData interface) is supported even with JDK 1.1.x.