SQL Server 2005's Type 4 JDBC driver provides database connectivity from a Java application. Though the driver class and connection URL are a bit different in this version, connectivity is a snap.

Microsoft has open sourced the Java language extension it added to SQL Server 2019 last year.

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an application program interface (API) packaged with the Java SE edition that makes it possible to standardize and simplify the process of connecting Java ...

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific 'smarts' in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor.