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In order to be able to connect to a database, the Servoy Application Server requires the JDBC Driver for the specific database. JDBC drivers usually come with the database or are provided separately by the database vendor or third party vendors.

Servoy The JDBC drivers are stored in the ../application_server/drivers/ directory. Servoy ships JDBC drivers for a several databases. For a full overview of the JDBC drivers shipped with a specific Servoy version, check the Servoy Stack info page in the Programming Reference Guide for the Servoy version used. 

The JDBC drivers are stored in the ../application_server/drivers/ directory.

Additional  Additional JDBC Drivers can be manually placed in this directory or can be uploaded through the Upload Library section of the Servoy Admin page. In both scenario's the Application Server requires a restart.

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There are two active versions of the JDBC specification, namely version 3 and version 4. The version 4 specification is only compatible with Java 6 or higher, whereas version 3 is compatibly with Java 5 and higher. As Servoy is compatibly with Java 5 and higher, Servoy supports JDBC drivers that conform to the JDBC 3.0 specification. 

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