On 4/17/06, Dallas Cahker <christmasfruitcake at gmail.com> wrote: > Is JDBC similar to ODBC where you need a driver on the machine making the > connection to the remote db? If so are there any free JDBC drivers > available that work well? I need to connect to a DB2. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/zones/java/ in the "downloads, cds, and dvds" section, select "db2 personal developers edition: redistributable type 4 jdbc driver" -- Matt Warden Miami University Oxford, OH, USA http://mattwarden.com This email proudly and graciously contributes to entropy.