Sun defines four JDBC driver types.

More Questions from JDBC, Java Server Pages, and MySQL

• The JVM (Java virtual machine) interprets Java bytecode at run time.
• A servlet is a Java program that is invoked via HTTP on the Web server.
• Java bytecode is machine-specific code.
• With JSP, the coding is done in Java and only in Java.
• JDBC Type 1 drivers are JDBC-ODBC bridge drivers.
• Apache Web server does not support servlets.
• MySQL is pronounced "my See-quel."
• MySQL maintains metadata in the database meta_sql.
• Type 3 and Type 4 JDBC drivers can be used for sevlets and applets.
• Java and C/C++ are so close that there are no incompatibilities between them. Therefore, a driver is not necessary.

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