How JDBC works. As a developer, you can use JDBC to interact with a database from within a Java program. JDBC acts as a bridge from your code to the database, as shown in Figure 1.

When a Java wants to connect to a database, it calls upon a JDBC interface known as the DriverManager, which loads a driver that has been written specifically by the vendor of the database to which ...

It is only for relational databases, so stick with the Apache Derby and MySQL instances. JDBC connections are expensive. ... the JDBC API has changed very little since the first Java release. Any code ...