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srinivas chaitanya
srinivas chaitanya

Reputation: 587

JDBC driver and Driver

I'm preparing for Oracle Certified Java Proffesiona (OCP) certification. This is the first time I have come across JDBC. In the book which I am preparing for certification (Kathy Sierra is one of authors), it is mentioned as:

"The collection of the implementation classes is called the JDBC driver. A JDBC driver (lowercase “d“) is the collection of classes required to support the API, whereas Driver (uppercase “D“) is one of the implementations required in a driver."

What is the author trying to mention about the Driver? Is Driver a class and is it a mandate to implement Driver in JDBC driver?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 113

Answers (1)

Ori Marko
Ori Marko

Reputation: 58772

Driver is a base interface for JDBC driver

The interface that every driver class must implement.

For example for OracleDriver

Implemented Interfaces: java.sql.Driver

Upvotes: 4

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