vub.starlab.ontoserver.database
Interface IDatabaseAPI

All Known Subinterfaces:

IDatabaseInsertionAPI, IDatabaseRetrievalAPI

public interface IDatabaseAPI

The IDatabaseAPI interface is provided as a parent for possible subinterfaces. It contains methods to connect or disconnect to/from the database.

Author:

Sven Casteleyn

Method Summary

void	closeConnection() This method is called when all database operations are finished, and a connection to the database is not longer required.
void	establishConnection(java.lang.String DriverName, java.lang.String URL) This method should be called before calling any other method of this interface.

Method Detail

establishConnection

public void establishConnection(java.lang.String DriverName,
                                java.lang.String URL)

This method should be called before calling any other method of this interface. It opens de connection to the database. Method expects as parameters the driver that should be used to establish the connection, and an URL, which is a java conventional string consisting of jdbc:<subprotocol >:<subname>, mostly this URL is suplied by the driver vendor. As an example, the URL could be "jdbc:odbc:name_of_datasource".

Parameters:

DriverName - the name of the driver, for example, when using the jdbc-odbc bridge, this DriverName would be "sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver"

URL - a java conventional string consisting of jdbc:<subprotocol >:<subname>, mostly this URL is suplied by the driver, for example, when using the jdbc-odbc bridge, this URL would be "jdbc:odbc:name_of_datasource"

See Also:

closeConnection()

closeConnection

public void closeConnection()

This method is called when all database operations are finished, and a connection to the database is not longer required. Java.sql.* junk is cleaned up before exiting.

See Also:

establishConnection(String, String)