Microsoft SQL Server 2008 JDBC Driver Community Technology Preview

Microsoft released the JDBC 4.0 compliant SQL Server 2008 JDBC driver[CTP Release,not GA].The following are the highlights.

• Provides access to sql server 2000 or sql server 2005 or sql server 2008
• Runs on JDK 5.0 or above
  
• The driver is JDBC 4.0 compliant
• Download the driver from the location

Note:
Community Technology Preview-CTP, release is post alpa, pre GA and Beta like release to the developers outside the parent company.This is Mirosoft's terminology.