Comparing JDBC and ODBC
JDBC may sound familiar to you if you've worked with ODBC. ODBC, or Open Database Connectivity, is a Microsoft standard API that provides access to a multitude of existing databases. Like ODBC, JDBC is based on the X/Open SQL Call Level Interface (X/Open SQL CLI). However, ODBC is a C or C++ API, using a lot of pointers, and it is mostly Microsoft Windows-platform specific. In contrast, JDBC is a pure Java API and it works on any platform running the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). JDBC is also an object-oriented API, so it is easier to learn and implement than the ODBC API.
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