FEATURES OF JDBC 4.0

The major features added in JDBC 4.0 include :

• Auto-loading of JDBC driver class
• Connection management enhancements.
• Support for RowId sql type.
• Dataset implementation of SQL using annotations.
• SQL exception handling enhancements.
• SQL XML support.

Note : JDBC 4.0 comes with JDK 1.6

JDBC API

• JDBC API consists of 2 packages - java.sql and javax.sql
• JDBC API comes with standard JDK software.
• JDBC API is a collection of Interfaces.

• JDBC driver is an implementation of JDBC API.