The JDBC interface consists of two layers: The JDBC API supports communication between the Java application and the JDBC manager. The JDBC driver supports communication between the JDBC manager ...

The long answer requires a history lesson on database access with Java. The JDBC API was packaged as part of the Java Standard Edition (Java SE) ever since the 1997 release of JDK 1.1, and provides a ...

The JDBC API is composed of a number of interfaces and classes that represent a connection to the database, provide facilities for sending SQL queries to a database and help Java developer process the ...