which driver converts jdbc calls directly into the vendor-specific database protocol
JDBC driver The JDBC type 3 driver, also known as the Pure Java driver for database middleware,[7] is a database driver implementation which makes use of a middle tier between the calling program and the database. The middle-tier (application server) converts JDBC calls directly or indirectly into a vendor-specific database protocol.
Denial-of-service attack A wide array of programs are used to launch DoS-attacks.
.properties Each parameter is stored as a pair of strings, one storing the name of the parameter (called the key), and the other storing the value.
Computer data storage Data are encoded by assigning a bit pattern to each character, digit, or multimedia object. Many standards exist for encoding (e.g., character encodings like ASCII, image encodings like JPEG, video encodings like MPEG-4).