The driver is implemented in the sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver
class and comes with the Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition.
The driver is platform-dependent as it makes use of ODBC which in turn depends on native libraries of the operating system. Also, using this driver has got other dependencies such as ODBC must be installed on the computer having the driver and the database which is being connected to must support an ODBC driver. Hence the use of this driver is discouraged if the alternative of a pure-Java driver is available.