File	Doc	Category	Size	Date	Package
Driver.java	API Doc	Java SE 5 API	5544	Fri Aug 26 14:57:18 BST 2005	java.sql

Driver

Class.forName("foo.bah.Driver")

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Methods Summary
public boolean	acceptsURL(java.lang.String url) Retrieves whether the driver thinks that it can open a connection to the given URL. Typically drivers will return true if they understand the subprotocol specified in the URL and false if they do not. param url the URL of the database return true if this driver understands the given URL; false otherwise exception SQLException if a database access error occurs
public java.sql.Connection	connect(java.lang.String url, java.util.Properties info) Attempts to make a database connection to the given URL. The driver should return "null" if it realizes it is the wrong kind of driver to connect to the given URL. This will be common, as when the JDBC driver manager is asked to connect to a given URL it passes the URL to each loaded driver in turn. The driver should throw an SQLException if it is the right driver to connect to the given URL but has trouble connecting to the database. The java.util.Properties argument can be used to pass arbitrary string tag/value pairs as connection arguments. Normally at least "user" and "password" properties should be included in the Properties object. param url the URL of the database to which to connect param info a list of arbitrary string tag/value pairs as connection arguments. Normally at least a "user" and "password" property should be included. return a Connection object that represents a connection to the URL exception SQLException if a database access error occurs
public int	getMajorVersion() Retrieves the driver's major version number. Initially this should be 1. return this driver's major version number
public int	getMinorVersion() Gets the driver's minor version number. Initially this should be 0. return this driver's minor version number
public java.sql.DriverPropertyInfo[]	getPropertyInfo(java.lang.String url, java.util.Properties info) Gets information about the possible properties for this driver. The getPropertyInfo method is intended to allow a generic GUI tool to discover what properties it should prompt a human for in order to get enough information to connect to a database. Note that depending on the values the human has supplied so far, additional values may become necessary, so it may be necessary to iterate though several calls to the getPropertyInfo method. param url the URL of the database to which to connect param info a proposed list of tag/value pairs that will be sent on connect open return an array of DriverPropertyInfo objects describing possible properties. This array may be an empty array if no properties are required. exception SQLException if a database access error occurs
public boolean	jdbcCompliant() Reports whether this driver is a genuine JDBC CompliantTM driver. A driver may only report true here if it passes the JDBC compliance tests; otherwise it is required to return false. JDBC compliance requires full support for the JDBC API and full support for SQL 92 Entry Level. It is expected that JDBC compliant drivers will be available for all the major commercial databases. This method is not intended to encourage the development of non-JDBC compliant drivers, but is a recognition of the fact that some vendors are interested in using the JDBC API and framework for lightweight databases that do not support full database functionality, or for special databases such as document information retrieval where a SQL implementation may not be feasible. return true if this driver is JDBC Compliant; false otherwise