JDBC simplified connection

Question

Is there any library that would simplify the task of connecting to a server with JDBC? Something that can take a string like "mysql://username:password@host/db", similar to what PHP MDB2 do: http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2/docs/latest/MDB2/MDB2.html#methodparseDSN

I'm not interested on any ORM or complex library such as Spring as I'm not even doing this from the Java language (but still on the JVM).

Answer 1

Just read the jdbc javadoc first...

Answer 2

This tutorial on java.sun.com might help:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc/basics/connecting.html

If you are looking for an abstraction layer to make working with databases easier - Hibernate is a widely used library - but it does take some effort to climb the learning curve.

http://www.hibernate.org/