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    // NOTES ON USING JDBC-ODBC BRIDGE UNDER JAVA 1.3
       Copyright (c) 1996,1998,1999 IBM Corporation.

    The IBM JDBC-ODBC Bridge assumes that your ODBC driver can support
    concurrency and you are expected to provide locking in your application
    if necessary.

    To use the JDBC-ODBC Bridge, you need to set up your own ODBC driver to
    work with the target database.  You should only set up the JDBC-ODBC bridge
    after you have successfully tested your ODBC driver.

    A C program, odbctest.c, calling ODBC API is provided for you to test your
    direct ODBC connection.  You need to compile and link it with your ODBC
    library.  A simple Java program, bridgetest.java, is also provided for you
    to test your ODBC connection in the Java environment.

    The Bridge is used by opening a JDBC connection using a URL with the odbc
    subprotocol.  Explicit loading is done with the following line of code:

            Class.forName ("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");

    When loaded, the ODBC driver creates an instance of itself and registers
    this with the JDBC driver manager.

    The Bridge driver uses the odbc subprotocol.  URLs for this subprotocol
    are of the form:

            jdbc:odbc:[=]*

    for example

            jdbc:odbc:databasename
            jdbc:odbc:mydb;UID=me;PWD=secret

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