Before a JDBC application interacts with a database, it must cause the
JDBC driver to be loaded in the Java session. provides the following
JDBC drivers for use with the database engine:
org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver
For embedded
environments, when runs in the same JVM as the application
org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver
For using the Network Client to connect to the Network Server
You can use ij to connect to any database that supplies a JDBC
driver. For those databases, you would need to load the supplied JDBC driver.