Client/Remote driver and data sources, used to connect to the network server
Embedded driver and data sources, used when the database engine is embedded with the application.
Derby's JDBC api is defined by its entry point classes, the drivers and data source implementations
and the standard JDBC api definitions of the java.sql
and javax.sql
classes.
Derby does not provide non-standard extensions to standard JDBC classes such as Connection
,
to encourage portable JDBC applications.