The Java virtual machine gets a new instruction: invokedynamic. Using invokedynamic, the JVM can invoke a method on an object without having to know on which class or interface the method is declared.

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Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)is an application program interface (API) specification for connecting programs written in Java to the data in popular databases.

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