java.sql.DriverManager is the first and most simple way to access a JDBC driver. A type 4 JDBC driver does not require any special configuration. You make it available to your application via the classpath as any regular JDBC driver. Type 2 and Embedded Server JDBC drivers require a JNI link to access client or embedded server libraries. This puts additional requiremenets on the configuration.

• Obtaining a connection via DriverManager
• Configuring a type 2 driver
• Configuring an embedded driver

This section contains configuration examples for various web and applications servers

• Tomcat configuration
• Apache DBCP configuration
• Spring framework configuration

• Configuring Sun Application Server 8.x

• List of supported Firebird character encodings and corresponding Java names
• Getting started with Trails and Firebird by Christian Stengel contains information about accessing Firebird database with Hibernate.
• JayBird Logging configuration.