Re: JDBC URL

From:

Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>

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comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:32:47 -0800 (PST)

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Thufir wrote:

jdbc:<subprotocol>:<subname>
Which seems very odd, in that that's not a URL to my thinking.

markspace wrote:

I think if you read the spec, most of the normal URL bits (like host
name, port, path, etc.) are optional when you define your own scheme.
That is, since Sun made up the JDBC scheme, they get to do what they want=

Check Wikipedia and the RFC's linked there for more info, but I think
that's the case.

It's also possible that this is a URI instead of a URL, even though Sun
seems to call it a URL most of the time.

A URL is a URI, so a JDBC URL wouldn't be a URI instead of a URL but
by virtue of being a URL.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/>
"URL is a useful but informal concept: a URL is a type of URI that
identifies a resource via a representation of its primary access
mechanism ...".

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