JDBC provides a set of classes for Java with a standard SQL database access interface.
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Goal is uniform access to a wide range of relational databases
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Provides an API for database "drivers" to make actual connections and transactions to database products.
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includes JDBC-ODBC bridge to standard ODBC drivers, a common interface for relational databases from C
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JDBC is "low-level" interface, calling SQL commands directly but is meant to be a base for higher-level interfaces.
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This talk has three sections:
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Using JDBC in Java, with a 2 tier example
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JDBC drivers
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3 tier examples
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