US Patent 7823136 Callbacks for monitoring driver-level statistics

A JAVA Database Connectivity (JDBC) subsystem includes a connection pool and prepared statement cache, which allows application to interact with a database. The JDBC subsystem can include a profiling component and a statistics monitoring component that maintain profile and statistics information concerning components of JDBC subsystem, such as the connection pool and prepared statement cache. A client application can register a diagnostic callback with the JDBC subsystem, for use with requests from that client application to methods of the JDBC driver being executed.