If you wish to access database system tables (database metadata) from a JDBC application, you must add a set of jConnect system objects to your database. Asajdbc shares the same stored procedures for database metadata support with jConnect. These procedures are installed to all databases by default. The iqinit switch -i prevents this installation.
The -i switch is common to iqinit and the SQL Anywhere utility dbinit.For descriptions of the -i switch, see "Initialization utility (dbinit)" in SQL Anywhere Server – Database Administration.
For information about adding the jConnect system objects to a database, see “Using the Sybase jConnect JDBC driver”.
The following complete Java application is a command-line application that connects to a running database, prints a set of information to your command line, and terminates.
Establishing a connection is the first step any JDBC application must take when working with database data.
This example illustrates an external connection, which is a regular client/server connection. For information on how to create an internal connection, from Java classes running inside the database server, see “Establishing a connection from a server-side JDBC class”.
