Advanced Features in SAP jConnect

SAP jConnect provides advanced features such as event notification, error message handling, password encryption, dynamic class loading, and JDBC specification support.

Review the instructions to use the advanced features supported by SAP jConnect.

• BCP Insert
  SAP jConnect supports large insertions of rows to SAP Adaptive Server version 12.5.2 and later using bulk-load inserts.
• Supported SAP Adaptive Server Cluster Edition Features
  SAP jConnect supports the SAP Adaptive Server Cluster Edition environment, where multiple SAP Adaptive Servers connect to a shared set of disks and a high-speed private interconnection. This allows SAP Adaptive Server to scale using multiple physical and logical hosts.
• Event Notification
  You can use event notification to have your application notified when an SAP Open Server procedure is executed.
• Error Messages
  SAP jConnect provides two classes for returning SAP jConnect-specific error information, SybSQLException and SybSQLWarning, as well as a SybMessageHandler interface that allows you to customize the way SAP jConnect handles error messages received from the server.
• Password Encryption
  By default, SAP jConnect for JDBC sends plain text passwords over the network to SAP Adaptive Server for authentication.
• Store Java Objects as Column Data in Table
  Database products enable you to directly store Java objects as column data in a database.
• Dynamic Class Loading
  SAP SQL Anywhere and SAP Adaptive Server allow you to specify Java classes.
• JDBC 4.0 Specifications Support
  Some JDBC 4.0 specifications that are supported by SAP jConnect.
• JDBC 3.0 Specifications Support
  JDBC 3.0 features that are supported in SAP jConnect 16.0.
• Support for JDBC 2.0 Optional Package Extensions
  The JDBC 2.0 Optional Package (formerly the JDBC 2.0 Standard Extension API) defined several features that JDBC 2.0 drivers could implement.