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Java Hibernate Basics Data Persistence & ORMs Using JDBC to Connect to a Database

Ricard Taujenis
Ricard Taujenis
4,383 Points
Posted by Ricard Taujenis
Ricard Taujenis
4,383 Points

Connect to a database by loading the driver contained in "org.sqlite.JDBC"

Application.java 
Class.forName("org.sqlite.JDBC"); {
try(Connection c = "treehouse.db" {
 Statement statement=connection.createStatement ();    
} catch(SQLException ex) {
 statemetn.executeUpdate("DROP TABLE");
}

1 Answer

Jeff Wilton
Jeff Wilton
16,646 Points
Jeff Wilton
Jeff Wilton
16,646 Points

I would highly recommend that you go back and watch the previous video and follow along in your own workspaces. Take your time and get your code working in workspaces, and the challenge will be much easier for you.

But just to help get you started, I modified your code to fix the problems:

// Load class "org.sqlite.JDBC"
Class.forName("org.sqlite.JDBC");
// Establish connection to database named "treehouse.db"
try(Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:sqlite:treehouse.db")) {
      Statement statement = c.createStatement();
} catch(SQLException ex) {
      System.err.printf("Ooops");
}