JDBC can connect only Java clients and it uses ODBC for the connectivity. Since ODBC gives a C language API that uses pointers extensively, ODBC alone cannot serve the purpose to connect to Java clients.
As Java does not have pointers and is object oriented, Sun Micro Systems, inventor of Java, developed JDBC to suit its needs.
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