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JDBC Drivers

Web Generation is capable of supporting DBMS access from the action blocks running on the Application Server machine. This type of access is made using JDBC calls through a JDBC driver. It is possible to access databases not normally supported by CA Gen if a proper driver exists for them.

CA Gen works with any driver for JDBC 2.0 or later. It also works with type 1, type 2, type 3, and type 4 drivers. The steps required for installing drivers are similar, with some differences depending on the driver type. A type 4 driver is assumed in the following example.

To properly configure CA Gen to work with a JDBC driver, the following information is needed: