The JDBC type 2 driver, also known as the Native-API driver, is a database driver implementation that uses the client-side libraries of the database. The driver converts JDBC method calls into native calls of the database API.
Advantages
- As there is no implementation of jdbc-odbc bridge, its considerably faster than a type 1 driver.
Disadvantages
- The vendor client library needs to be installed on the client machine.
- Not all databases have a client side library
- This driver is platform dependent
- This driver supports all java applications except Applets
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JDBC