HP Driver for JDBC User's Manual

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Using the HP Driver for JDBC

Connection Parameters

Once these values have been determined, the JDBC Driver connection

URL can be synthesized. There are two primary JDBC Driver class

methods that can be used to connect to the database. The ﬁrst one

requires that all connection parameters be provided in a Java String

URL, including the user name and password. However, this

information can be logged on the client, thus recording the user name

and password. Remember that the user name and passwords can be

used to log on to the server host.

The second connection method also takes a Java String URL, but allows

for the user name and password to be speciﬁed as separate arguments,

which are not logged. This would be the more secure method of

connecting to the database.

The choice of method is entirely up to the application developer. The

HP Driver for JDBC supports both methods.