Jaybird is a JCA/JDBC driver for Firebird. Jaybird is the way to access Firebird databases from a Java application (or any other language running in the JVM).

You can download the latest version of Jaybird from the releases section or from the JDBC section on the Firebird website.

Jaybird 3.0.5 is also available on Maven

Depency info:

<groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>jaybird-jdkXX</artifactId>
<version>3.0.5</version>

Where jdkXX is either jdk18, or jdk17.

In depth manual on the use of Jaybird: The Jaybird 2.1 JDBC Driver Programmer's Manual

This manual has not been updated for Jaybird 2.2 and 3.0; we are working on updating it, see https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird-manual.

• Jaybird 3.0.x release notes
• Jaybird 2.2.x release notes

• Jaybird 3.0.x javadoc (Java 8)
• Jaybird 2.2.x javadoc (Java 8)