School of Engineering Technology and Applied Science

Department of Information and Communication Engineering Technology

COURSE CODE: COMP 303

COURSE TITLE: Java EE Programming

JDBC

Professor : Dr. Aime M. Mbobi

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1. Java is platform independent.

You can develop platform-independent database applications using

SQL and Java for any relational database systems.

2. The support for accessing database systems from Java is

built into Java API

So you can create database applications using all Java code with a

common interface.
JDBC Definition and Architecture

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JDBC Definition

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 JDBC

• JDBC is Set of classes for interacting with a Relational

Database.

• Defines method to connect to all major databases:

Oracle

DB2

MySQL

SQL Server
Database System

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 JDBC

Application User

Application

DBMS System User

DB
JDBC Architecture

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Application/Applet/Servle
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JDBC API

JDBC Drivers

DBMS

DB
 JDBC

• JDBC is an API specification that defines the following:

How to interact with databases from Java applications, applets, and

servlets

How to write JDBC drivers

How to use JDBC drivers

 JDBC

• JDBC Drivers provide independence of actual type of DB.

• The java code doesn’t change regardless of DB it works

with
 JDBC

Application/Applet/Servle
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JDBC API

Oracle DB2 MySQL

JDBC Drivers JDBC Drivers JDBC Drivers

Oracle DB2 MySQL

Oracle DB2 MySQL

Database Database Database
 JDBC

Java Program

JDBC methods

JDBC Driver is a
JDBC Drivers translator between
Java calls to vendor
specific database calls
DB methods

Database