Is the #MySQL #JDBC mysql-connector-j driver very different from the #MariaDB version? I would expect that they try to stay pretty close to upstream, so that their software is easily inserted in place of #Oracle MySQL.
Oh, yes. I'm pretty sure that #JDBC driver is produced by someone external to the #SQLite project. I've used it before (using #SquirrelSQL to look at a database) and it seemed okay.
@musicman Probably not, but there may be a #JDBC driver for #SQLite on the SQLite.org site, along with #ODBC. Drivers are less necessary there, because the database software (in this case, the SQLite C library) is usually embedded within the application.
@dragnucs I don't know what learning #Java / #J2EE / #JEE is like today, but it wasn't bad 15-20 years ago. Apache Tomcat, servlets, a little bit of JSP, the mod_jk connector from Tomcat to Apache Web Server. Using #JDBC to connect to MySQL 3.23 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Comparing servlets to Perl CGI and JSPs to PHP (which were topics in other classes I took).