7.9 Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
As discussed in Section 7.4.3, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an API that provides a standard for relational database access from Java. The API includes a set of Java classes and interfaces for connecting to a database, executing queries, calling stored procedures, and querying metadata. Although the java.sql standard covers the common features, various vendors, including Oracle, have added extended functionality to their JDBC drivers. Using standard JDBC, Java applications that involve database access become platform independent, allowing them to run on a variety of servers and DBMSs. Web-based applications must often retrieve information from an underlying database and use that information to dynamically ...
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