Remote jdbc Driver Server-side Description - II
Advantages
- Allows access to a remote database using JDBC API from a java program transparently with a single driver existence at the client side.
- Tries to attain uniformity at the client side over the use of the driver and the jdbc API used.
- Will work with any type of driver (out of 4 categories mentioned previously) which only needs to be at the server side now.
Limitations
- Implementation of the server side of this driver has many alternatives such as Socket communication/RMI/CORBA.
- Involves network traffic at a higher magnitude which makes it prone to failure depending upon the reliability of the network.