Chapter 13. Using PostgreSQL from a Java Client Application
If you read the previous chapter, you know that ODBC is a technology that can connect a single application to multiple databases without making any changes to the application. ODBC is popular in the C, C++, Visual Basic, and VBA worlds. The folks at Sun Microsystems developed a similar technology for Java applications: JDBC. Many people will tell you that JDBC is an acronym for “Java Database Connectivity,” but according to Sun, “…JDBC is the trademarked name and is not an acronym.”
JDBC is an API that makes it easy for Java applications to connect to a database, send commands to the database, and retrieve the results. JDBC is packaged as a collection of classes[1]. To start working with ...
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