JDBC - Java DataBase Connectivity

RTP JUG Presentation - originally given on July 31 1996
by Pratik R. Patel

JDBC - The Who? What? When? Where? and Why?


First, and most importantly,

Why?


Who?

Javasoft, with help from many, many software vendors:
Borland, Bulletproof, Cyber SQL Corporation, DataRamp, Dharma Systems Inc., Gupta Corporation, IBM's Database 2 (DB2), Imaginary (mSQL), Informix Software Inc., Intersoft, Intersolv, Object Design Inc., Open Horizon, OpenLink Software, Oracle Corporation, Persistence Software, Presence Information Design, PRO-C Inc., RogueWave Software Inc., SAS Institute Inc. (tm), SCO, Sybase Inc., Symantec, Thunderstone, Visigenic Software Inc., WebLogic Inc., XDB Systems, inc. Recital Corporation
These companies were working in conjunction with Javasoft to produce the specification, so this is an industry-wide effort.

What?

So, what is this JDBC?

When?

The project started around the first of the year (1996) and the frozen version of the specification was released in the second week of June 1996. Currently, there are several vendors who have JDBC drivers for popular RDBMS's.

Where?

Javasoft's JDBC site is a good place to start.
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