History and Implementation
Sun Microsystems released JDBC as part of JDK 1.1 on February 19, 1997. It has since formed part of the Java Standard Edition.
The JDBC classes are contained in the Java package java.sql and javax.sql.
Starting with version 3.1, JDBC has been developed under the Java Community Process. JSR 54 specifies JDBC 3.0 (included in J2SE 1.4), JSR 114 specifies the JDBC Rowset additions, and JSR 221 is the specification of JDBC 4.0 (included in Java SE 6).
The latest version, JDBC 4.1, is specified by a maintenance release of JSR 221 and is included in Java SE 7.
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