Communicating with an Apache Derby Network Server

The Apache Derby Network Server acts as a communication gateway for Apache Derby databases. It communicates through the Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) protocol to database clients and converts their requests to the native Apache Derby format. Because there are no functional open source application programming interfaces (APIs) that implement the DRDA protocol, Apache Derby relies on the IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) client to provide access through the Call Level Interface (CLI) and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) APIs. The DB2 client converts CLI and ODBC requests into DRDA, enabling applications that are built against the DB2 client to connect to the Apache Derby ...

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