If your database server runs on a different host than your Web server, or if you are developing Internet applications that must connect to a secure database server through a firewall, you need a gateway to act as a proxy, providing a path to the database server.
To connect to servers using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, jConnect provides a Java servlet that you can install on any Web server that supports the javax.servlet interfaces. This servlet enables jConnect to support encryption using the Web server as the gateway.
jConnect includes support for SSL on the client system.
For more information, see “Implementing custom socket plug-ins”.
