Connecting with DB2 JDBC Drivers

When connecting to an Apache Derby Network server, an application needs to load a connection URL that is specific to the network server. In addition, a remote connection requires a user name and a password. If authentication has not been set up in Apache Derby, any user name and password can be used, and they are ignored. Refer to Chapter 7, “Security,” for more information on security in Apache Derby.

The URL needed to access the network server is:

jdbc:derby:net://<server>[:<port>]/<databaseName>
   :user=<value>;password=<value>;
   [<Apache Derby URL attribute>=<value> [;...]] 
   [:<Universal Driver attribute>=<value>; [...;]]

The syntax for connection to the network server differs slightly from the syntax used to ...

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