What is a JDBC type 5 driver? What are the benefits of such a driver?
Can I get any links/tutorials about type 5 drivers?
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There are currently four types of JDBC drivers. See: Types of JDBC technology drivers
There is some speculation about what the next type would be like.
Bill the Lizard
2010-06-07 17:41:35
I've never seen that speculation before and it looks like typical market buzz without any technical merit. None of the differences mentioned in the article warrant a new type of driver. They are simply improvements for existing types.
Joachim Sauer
2010-07-26 12:03:30
@Joachim: The 1st and 3rd bullet points definitely seem like they would be implementation details that don't require a new type of driver at all. I'm not sure about the 2nd and 4th without some clarification of what they mean. The 5th one though, "Elimination of the need for proprietary extensions to the JDBC specification," seems like a new driver type would be in order.
Bill the Lizard
2010-07-26 12:52:09
@Bill: it doesn't look like it would require another driver type. It would require some additional methods/interfaces for JDBC drivers to implement, but that would result in another JDBC release, but not in another driver type. Or put differently: those features could be implemented by drivers of any type, in my opinion.
Joachim Sauer
2010-07-26 13:01:01
@Joachim: Yeah, I see your point now and I agree. It would make more sense for those to fall under a new version of the JDBC specification itself, not a new driver type.
Bill the Lizard
2010-07-26 13:29:13
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Look at this link http://web.progress.com/en/inthenews/progress-software-an-04272010.shtml.en and http://web.datadirect.com/products/jdbc/type5/index.html
Samurai
2010-07-26 12:00:38