Copyright © 2001 Qusay H. Mahmoud
What is JDBC?
lIt is an API for database connectivity
lIt provides “universal database access”
–Provides a cross-DBMS connectivity to a wide range
SQL databases
–Not necessary to develop a separate program to access
databases from different vendors
lThe new APIs provide access to other tabular data
(e.g. spreadsheets)
lThe APIs is provided in the java.sql package