What is the full form of JDBC ?

JDBC - Java DataBase Connectivity

A JDBC driver is a software component enabling a Java application to interact with a database. It is basically and API that lets you access virtually any tabular data source from a Java application. It supports both 2-tier and 3-tier models for database access.

There are 3 main functions of JDBC -

• Establishing a connection with a database
• Sending SQL commands to the database
• Retrieve and process the results received from the database