How JDBC works As a developer, you can use JDBC to interact with a database from within a Java program. JDBC acts as a bridge from your code to the database, as shown in Figure 1.

By default, the MySQL Rails database adapter is used in NetBeans 6.1 Beta. Users can configure a Rails project either with or without Java database connectivity (JDBC). The IDE connection parameters ...

You can consider ODBC a competitor to JDBC, but that doesn't mean you can't connect to ODBC-compliant databases with the JDBC API. A JDBC-ODBC driver allows you to easily connect your Java programs to ...

In my blog entry Project Jersey and Java-Based REST , I used several screen snapshots and some text to illustrate how NetBeans 6.1 can be used with Jersey (the JSR-311 /JAX-RS reference ...