JDBC API

JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) is an established standard interface, developed by Sun Microsystems™ and now owned by Oracle; to connect programs written in the Java™ language. JDBC is a Java API that extends the capability of Java by executing SQL statements with any relational databases.

dbSpaces's JDBC API provides industry-standard, seamless connectivity and interoperability with enterprise information assets.

For example, using the JDBC API, you can publish a web page containing an applet that uses information provided by dbSpaces from a remote database. Or you can use dbSpaces with the JDBC API to link all data sources, making corporate information available for employees across LANs, WANs, intranets, or the Internet, regardless of whether employees are using Windows, Linux or Unix machines.

JDBC offers a better alternative to ODBC for direct use from Java because ODBC uses a C interface. Calls from Java to native C code present drawbacks in security, implementation, robustness, and automatic portability of applications.