1 | Traditional web access to the database was done with the use of CGI script accessing the database and creating output in the form of HTML document presented in WWW client. |
2 | The requests and responses were transmitted using HTTP protocol and there was no session notion and it was not able to preserve the database transaction logic |
3 | JDBC expands these options: |
4 | Java programs can be executed on client and on server side. In this case it is possible to create three tier client-server application. |
5 | Client applications can also access database directly. |