JDBC

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Feature 3 JDBC Driver 4 Resources

[edit] Overview

JDBC provides an interface for Java application for communication with databases. The benefit of this API is that it provides an independent connection functionality that enables the user to connect to any JDBC compliant database. JDBC can be said to be the java industry standard for connections to a databases. The framework is provided by SUN and it is included in the Java package.

[edit] Feature

The API provides the following:

• Connection to a database that provides a JDBC driver
• Ability to send SQL statement to the database
• Retrieve and process result sent from the database.

[edit] JDBC Driver

A JDBC driver is a class, or package of classes that can create a connection to a specific database implementation, such as MySQL, ORACLE, DB2. The driver are used by the JDBC API to establish the connection to a database.

[edit] Resources

JDBC Home [1]