This document provides instructions for creating a JDBC connection to a Microsoft Access database in Java. It discusses registering the testdb.mdb database with ODBC, registering the JDBC/ODBC bridge driver with the DriverManager, and includes examples of obtaining a Connection object. The key steps are: 1) registering the database with ODBC, 2) registering the JDBC driver with DriverManager via Class.forName(), and 3) obtaining a Connection using the jdbc:odbc:datasource URL and DriverManager.getConnection(). Code examples for connecting are provided in ConnectMe.java and ConnectMe1.java.

1. Prepared by-
Paneliya Prince (150120116047)
Guided by – Prof.Prashant Jani
Gandhinagar Institute of Technology
SUBJECT-AJAVA(2160707)
Creating JDBC connection

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• JDBC: Java Database Connectivity kit
• Package: java.sql
• DriverManager: class for making connection to
databases
• Connection: interface for communicating with databases
once connection has been established.
• Other interfaces: Statement, ResultSet,
DatabaseMetaData, ResultSetMetaData,
SQLException, ….etc.

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Connecting to Databases with JDBC
• JDBC-to-database communication path
Will discuss this path
using testdb.mdb
Textbook discusses this
path using testdb.mdb
Java Application
JDBC Driver Manager
JDBC/ODBC
bridge
Vendor
supplied
JDBC
driversODBC drivers
Database

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• Register testdb.mdb with the ODBC Datasource Administer
on your PC. Instructions:
– Open Control Panel and select ODBC Data Sources
[32bit] (on XP under Administrative Tools). You will
get the window shown on the right. Click on Add.

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– Select Microsoft Access Driver and then click on Finish.
You will get the window shown on the right.
– Provide a name for the data source, say TestDB.
– Click and Select and select testdb.mdb from file system
(picture on the next page)

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– Then you see the picture on the right. Simply click on OK
and the registration is complete.
– Thereafter the database testdb.mdb is known as TestDB
to the ODBC Datasource Adminstrator.
– For JDBC, URL for the database is: jdbc:odbc:TestDB

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• Register JDBC driver (sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver )
with DriverManager
– Method 1:
• set system property jdbc.drivers
System.setProperty("jdbc.drivers",
"sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
• At initialization, DriverManager loads all driver
classes referenced in jdbc.drivers
– Method 2: Load driver explicitely at any time
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
A call to forName("X") causes the class named X
to be initialized.
Java Application
JDBC Driver Manager
JDBC/ODBC
bridge
Vendor
supplied
JDBC
drivers
ODBC
Database

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• Connection examples
– ConnectMe.java: register JDBC driver using the second
method
– ConnectMe1.java: register JDBC driver using the first
method
• Note. Examples (including testdb.mdb) in this topic are
packaged in the zip. See the code page

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