Using JDBC
The best place to start in understanding an API is with a minimal implementation example. The following code demonstrates just such an implementation using only four JDBC classes as listed in Table 5-4.
| Interface/Class | Purpose |
|---|---|
| DriverManager | Loads the JDBC driver and manages the database connection. Controls access to the database driver. |
| Connection | Connects to the database and allows the creation of Statement objects. |
| Statement | Allows the execution of SQL statements and returns results, either integer values for the number of rows updated or ResultSet objects representing the rows returned by the execution of a SQL select statement. |
| ResultSet | Allows access to individual rows in the set of rows returned by a SQL ... |
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