Here's a quick JDBC with HSQLDB tutorial to get you up and running with Java database connectivity and the popular HyperSQL database.

IDG Figure 1. JDBC connects Java programs to databases. JDBC vs ODBC Before JDBC, developers used Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), a language-agnostic standard approach to accessing a relational ...

The Type 1 JDBC driver is simply a JDBC-ODBC bridge. The Type 2 JDBC driver is written in a language other than Java, often C++ or C. The Type 3 JDBC driver talks to a middleware server first, not the ...

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Java Foundation Classes (JFC) offer a rich selection of components for building smart and interactive graphical user interfaces (GUIs). You can display tabular data using the javax.swing.JTable class.