Accessing your IBM i database with the Java JDBC driver

The Java™ JDBC driver, also known as the "native" driver, provides programmatic access to IBM i database files. Using the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API, applications written in the Java language can access JDBC database functions with embedded Structured Query Language (SQL), run SQL statements, retrieve results, and propagate changes back to the database. The JDBC API can also be used to interact with multiple data sources in a distributed, heterogeneous environment.

The SQL99 Command Language Interface (CLI), on which the JDBC API is based, is the basis for ODBC. JDBC provides a natural and easy-to-use mapping from the Java programming language to the abstractions and concepts defined in the SQL standard.