The Java Development Kit does provide something called a JDBC-ODBC bridge driver that allows developers to write applications that use the JDBC API but connect to ODBC compliant databases such as ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 25, 2001 — Microsoft Corp. and MERANT (NNM: MRNT LSE: MRN) DataDirect today announced the upcoming release of a beta version of the Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Java Database ...

The Type 3 JDBC driver talks to a middleware server first, not the database directly. The Type 4 JDBC driver is a pure, direct Java-to-the-database implementation. Here we see the Derby JDBC driver ...