How JDBC works. As a developer, you can use JDBC to interact with a database from within a Java program. JDBC acts as a bridge from your code to the database, as shown in Figure 1.

When a Java wants to connect to a database, it calls upon a JDBC interface known as the DriverManager, which loads a driver that has been written specifically by the vendor of the database to which ...

A JDBC-ODBC driver allows you to easily connect your Java programs to ODBC-compliant databases. JDBC hasn't changed much. With every new release of the JDK, new features and enhancements are added to ...

JDBC stands for the Java database connectivity protocol. Based on the same X/Open CLI standard as Microsoft's object database connectivity protocol, the JDBC applications programmable interface ...

The core idea behind JPA as opposed to JDBC, is that for the most part, JPA lets you avoid the need to “think relationally.” In JPA, you define your persistence rules in the realm of Java code ...