JavaSoft JDBC : A Java SQL API

Many vendors and customers are now looking for easy database access for Java applications. Since Java is robust, secure, easy to use, easy to understand, and automatically downloadable on a network, it is an excellent language basis for the development of database applications. It offers many advantages over C, C++, Smalltalk, BASIC, COBOL, and 4GLs for a wide variety of uses.

Many Java application developers would like to write code that is independent of the particular DBMS or database connectivity mechanism being used, and we believe that a DBMS independent interface is also the fastest way to implement access to the wide variety of DBMSs. So,we decided it would be useful to the Java community to define a generic SQL database access framework which provides a uniform interface on top of a variety of different database connectivity modules. This allows programmers to write to a single database interface,  enables DBMS independent Java application development tools and products, and allows database connectivity vendors to provide a variety of different connectivity solutions.

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