“A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.”
― Charlie Chaplin
1. Introduction
JDBC stands for Java DataBase Connectivity and is the standard API (application programming interface) java provides for working with databases. JDBC, as a standard, is built into the java platform. To connect with and use a database, you need an additional component called a jdbc driver, which is specific to the type of database you are working with, such as MySQL, SQL Server, etc. In other words, the JDBC API consists of a small number of classes and a bunch of interfaces, the implementation provided by the actual database vendor. This is illustrated by the figure below.