Driver JDK 1.6)

Description

public interface Driver

The interface that every driver class must implement.

The Java SQL framework allows for multiple database drivers.

Each driver should supply a class that implements the Driver interface.

The DriverManager will try to load as many drivers as it can find and then for any given connection request, it will ask each driver in turn to try to connect to the target URL.

It is strongly recommended that each Driver class should be small and standalone so that the Driver class can be loaded and queried without bringing in vast quantities of supporting code.

When a Driver class is loaded, it should create an instance of itself and register it with the DriverManager. This means that a user can load and register a driver by calling

   Class.forName("foo.bah.Driver")

See also: DriverManager Connection

Methods

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public boolean acceptsURL (String url) throws SQLException

Retrieves whether the driver thinks that it can open a connection to the given URL.

Retrieves whether the driver thinks that it can open a connection
to the given URL. Typically drivers will return true if they
understand the subprotocol specified in the URL and false if
they do not.
Returns: true if this driver understands the given URL; false otherwise
Parameters:
- url - the URL of the database
Throws:
- SQLException - if a database access error occurs

public Connection connect (String url, Properties info) throws SQLException

Attempts to make a database connection to the given URL.

public int getMajorVersion ()

Retrieves the driver's major version number.

public int getMinorVersion ()

Gets the driver's minor version number.

public DriverPropertyInfo getPropertyInfo (String url, Properties info) throws SQLException

Gets information about the possible properties for this driver.

public boolean jdbcCompliant ()

Reports whether this driver is a genuine JDBC Compliant^TM driver.

Reports whether this driver is a genuine JDBC Compliant^TM driver. A driver may only report true here if it passes the JDBC compliance tests; otherwise it is required to return false.

JDBC compliance requires full support for the JDBC API and full support for SQL 92 Entry Level. It is expected that JDBC compliant drivers will be available for all the major commercial databases.

This method is not intended to encourage the development of non-JDBC compliant drivers, but is a recognition of the fact that some vendors are interested in using the JDBC API and framework for lightweight databases that do not support full database functionality, or for special databases such as document information retrieval where a SQL implementation may not be feasible.
Returns: true if this driver is JDBC Compliant; false otherwise