<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><!--Copyright 2004-2008 H2 Group. Multiple-Licensed under the H2 License, Version 1.0,and under the Eclipse Public License, Version 1.0(http://h2database.com/html/license.html).Initial Developer: H2 Group--><html><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/><title>API Overview</title><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="stylesheet.css"/></head><body><tablestyle="width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;"><trstyle="border:0px; border-left:1px solid #aca899;"><tdstyle="border:0px; border-left:1px solid #aca899;"><divstyle="margin:10px;"><h1>API Overview</h1><h2>JDBC API</h2><p>Use the JDBC API to connect to a database and execute queries.</p><h2>Tools API</h2><p>The Tools API can be used to do maintenance operations,such as deleting database files or changing the database file password,that do not require a connection to the database.</p></div></td></tr></table></body></html>