J2EE.6.3 JDBC 2.0 Standard Extension Requirements

The JDBC 2.0 standard extension includes APIs for row sets, connection naming via JNDI, connection pooling, and distributed transaction support. The connection pooling and distributed transaction features are intended for use by JDBC drivers to coordinate with an application server. J2EE products are not required to support the application server facilities described by these APIs, although their use is encouraged. We expect that such a requirement will be added in a future version of this specification, after more vendors have had a chance to implement these features.

The JDBC 2.0 standard extension specification is available at http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/jdbcse2.html.