Combining XML's features with JDBC provides powerful choices for manipulating data within your Java applications. Find out which new DB2 features simplify this integration.
by Anson Kokkat
October 12, 2006
he combination of XML features and JDBC has provided Java developers with more powerful choices for manipulating data within their applications. Meanwhile, the evolution of Java has spawned many JDBC drivers—interfaces for connecting with a database and manipulating data within a Java application—to handle the needs of particular applications (see Sidebar 1. JDBC Driver Types). The version 9 release of IBM's DB2 Universal Database (UDB) combines the best of these drivers with native XML data storage to simplify data-intense Java application development.
Today, pure Java drivers (type 4) are the most popular for Java application development because of their adaptability and natural fit with many application servers and open source tools. As such, IBM promotes the JDBC Universal type 4 driver (popularly termed the JCC driver) as the primary driver for DB2 V9 (see Sidebar 2. JCC Driver for DB2). At the same time, the introduction of native XML data storage in DB2 V9 goes a long way in simplifying XML utilization in Java applications.
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he combination of XML features and JDBC has provided Java developers with more powerful choices for manipulating data within their applications. Meanwhile, the evolution of Java has spawned many JDBC drivers—interfaces for connecting with a database and manipulating data within a Java application—to handle the needs of particular applications (see 
