What are JDBC driver types?

1.	What are JDBC driver types?
Answer» There are four types of JDBC drivers JDBC-ODBC Bridge plus ODBC driver − also called Type 1 calls native code of the locally available ODBC driver. Native-API, partly Java driver − also called Type 2 calls database vendor native library on a client side. This code then talks to database over network. JDBC-Net, pure Java driver − also called Type 3 the pure-java driver that talks with the server-side middleware that then talks to database. Native-protocol, pure Java driver − also called Type 4 the pure-java driver that uses database native protocol.

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There are four types of JDBC drivers

JDBC-ODBC Bridge plus ODBC driver − also called Type 1 calls native code of the locally available ODBC driver.
Native-API, partly Java driver − also called Type 2 calls database vendor native library on a client side. This code then talks to database over network.
JDBC-Net, pure Java driver − also called Type 3 the pure-java driver that talks with the server-side middleware that then talks to database.
Native-protocol, pure Java driver − also called Type 4 the pure-java driver that uses database native protocol.

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