The standard way to obtain a Connection object
is to call the method DriverManager.getConnection,
which takes a String containing a connection URL (uniform resource locator).
A JDBC connection URL provides a way of identifying a database. It also allows
you to perform a number of high-level tasks, such as creating a database or
shutting down the system.
An application in an embedded environment uses a different connection URL
from that used by applications using the Network
Server in a client/server environment. See the for
more information on the Network Server.
However, all versions of the connection URL (which you can use for tasks
besides connecting to a database) have common features:
- you can specify the name of the database you want to connect to
- you can specify a number of attributes and values that allow you to accomplish
tasks. For more information about what you can specify with the connection
URL, see "Examples". For detailed reference about attributes and values, as
well as syntax of the database connection URL, see the " Database
Connection URL Syntax" in the .
An example use of the connection URL:
Connection conn=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:derby:sample");