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by Mandar S. Chitnis, Lakshmi Ananthamurthy, Pravin S. Tiwari
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API
The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API provides a set of common, vendor-neutral classes and interfaces to enable database access to different databases from Java applications. The JDBC API specification defines a standard set of interfaces that vendors of JDBC drivers need to implement to conform to the JDBC API. Application component providers can use the JDBC driver in their application components to access data from databases. The JDBC drivers fall in one of the following four categories:
Type 1 driver— The type 1 driver is the JDBC-ODBC bridge. The JDBC-ODBC bridge communicates with an ODBC driver using the Java Native Interface (JNI) and acts as a translator between the Java application/JDBC API and ...
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