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– JDBC applications and Version 2.3 servlets must use the Version 5 data
source.
4.5.3 DB2 JDBC providers
According to the JDBC specification, there are four types of JDBC driver
architectures:
Type 1 - Drivers that implement the JDBC API as a mapping to another data
access API, such as ODBC. Drivers of this type are generally dependent on a
native library, which limits their portability. The JDBC-ODBC Bridge driver is
an example of a Type 1 driver.
Type 2 - Drivers that are written partly in the Java programming language and
partly in native code. The drivers use a native client library specific to the data
source to which they connect. Again, because of the native code, their ...