The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API key part of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). It is the standards-based mechanism for the Java language to programmatically access relation databases.
New Features
CallableStatement interface has been updated so that you can now specify parameters by their names
Two new Datatypes have been added java.sql.Types.DATALINK and java.sql.Types.BOOLEAN
Auto-generated key or Auto Incremented key can be retrived by mentoioning optional flag value Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS in Statement.executeUpdate()
Statement interface to support multiple open ResultSets
jdbc3.0 allowed to define Transactional Savepoints during transaction and can roll back to any saved state.
Updating BLOB and CLOB Data Types
