Re: JDBC driver for informix
[Posted and mailed] In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.980618211145.6711A-100000@ux9.cso.uiuc.edu>, jonghyun lee <jlee17@students.uiuc.edu> writes: > Hi. I need get some information about informix JDBC driver. I'm > currently working on windows NT environment. In my > understanding, when programming in java, I have to load a > database-specific driver (informix here) like by using Class.forName() > method for example. What is the driver name for informix? (I know I can > use oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver for Oracle) And how can I get that > driver? > > And after I load the driver, I need to pass url for database to > getConnection method. What should the url be like? I guess it will start > with "jdbc:". And then? (maybe some combination of host name, server name, > port number, db name, user name and so on.) > > Thanks in advance. > A type 2 JDBC driver for Informix is available for free, look at the INF. homea age for ClientSDK. For WindowsNT the driver has to loaded with: Class.forName("informix.api.jdbc.JDBCDriver"); ... String url = "jdbc:informix-api-direct:;database=xxx"; Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection(url); For more details see the documentation in ClientSDK for JDBC. -- Bernhard Derix email: derix@forwiss.uni-passau.de Homepage: http://www.forwiss.uni-passau.de/~derix/ Universitaet Passau, FORWISS, Zi. FMI 034, Innstr. 33, 94032 Passau Tel.: 0851/509-3144