ODBC & JDBC

What is the purpose of creating ODBC data source in establishing a connection between Java application & database?

Nilusha Thilakani
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Jan 17th, 2010
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vinaymudgil007
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Jun 7th, 2010

Its only useful when pure java drivers aren't avaliable for that database [which is least likely these days]

Thanks,
Vinay

vana_mlk
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Jul 2nd, 2010

Shine pattern has JConnection for connecting to any database.

sindhumsc
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Aug 24th, 2010

ODBC stands for open database connectivity which helps us to connect then link from Java to database..so if we want to connect from Java to any database one way is to use ODBC which helps to connect Java to any database (like Oracle, MySQL..).