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 ...

Read the whole series Part 1: Connect your Java applications to databases—the easy way Part 2: Compile, deploy, and access data using your custom-built JDBC driver Part 3: Enhance the custom ...