How do I set properties for a JDBC driver and where are the properties stored?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=593758 Created: Dec 21, 2001 Author: Joe Sam Shirah (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=42100) Question originally posed by Pradeep Kharvi (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=342402 A JDBC driver may accept any number of properties to tune or optimize performance for the specific driver. There is no standard, other than user and password, for what these properties should be. Therefore, the developer is dependent on the driver documentation to automatically pass properties. For a standard dynamic method that can be used to solicit user input for properties, see What properties should I supply to a database driver in order to connect to a database? In addition, a driver may specify its own method of accepting properties. Many do this via appending the property to the JDBC Database URL. However, a JDBC Compliant driver should implement the connect(String url, Properties info) method. This is generally invoked through DriverMana