Metacat

/**

 *        Name: MetaCatUtil.java

 *     Purpose: A Class that implements utility methods for a metadata catalog

 *   Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California and the

 *              National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

 *     Authors: Matt Jones

 * 

 *     Version: '$Id: MetaCatUtil.java 82 2000-05-05 21:50:00Z jones $'

 */

package edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat;

import java.sql.Connection;

import java.sql.DriverManager;

import java.sql.SQLException;

/**

 * A suite of utility classes for the metadata catalog server

 */

public class MetaCatUtil {

  /** 

   * Utility method to establish a JDBC database connection 

   *

   * @param dbDriver the string representing the database driver

   * @param connection the string representing the database connectin parameters

   * @param user name of the user to use for database connection

   * @param password password for the user to use for database connection

   */

  public static Connection openDBConnection(String dbDriver, String connection,

                String user, String password)

                throws SQLException, ClassNotFoundException {

     // Load the Oracle JDBC driver

     Class.forName (dbDriver);

     // Connect to the database

     Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection( connection, user, password);

     return conn;

  }

}