Hi, all. I would like to know exactly what are the approved/documented
ways to get a connection.
My reason for asking this is, I want to understand what all touch points
there are in JDBC that allow you to get access to the first
implementation class for a given driver. If I have it right, everything
hangs off of a Connection, so what are the ways in which you get a
Connection?
I know one way is to load the driver class and then use
DriverManager.getConnection().
Another way is, in a managed environment, use JNDI or some other
mechanism to load a registered DataSource and then use that to get a
connection.
Are there other ways? Can, for instance, a user directly create an
driver specific DataSource instance (rather than going through JNDI) and
then use that to create connections? Or is that not a supported mechanism?
Thanks,
David
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