Before using savepoints in your application, you need to be sure that your RDBMS supports this facility. To do this, call the DatabaseMetaData.supportsSavepoints method, like this:

Connection conn=null;DatabaseMetaData dmd=null;...try{   dmd=conn.getMetaData();   if(dmd.supportsSavepoints())           System.out.println(TRUE);   else          System.out.println(FALSE);               }catch(SQLException e)      {System.out.println(e.getMessage());}         ...

Note: This tip applies to JDBC 3.0 and higher drivers.