Database-side JDBC procedures and nested connections

Most database-side JDBC Procedures need to share the same transaction space as the statements that called them.

The reasons for this are:

In order to use the same transaction, the procedure must use the same connection as the parent SQL statement in which the method was executed. Connections re-used in this way are called nested connections.

Use the connection URL jdbc:default:connection to re-use the current Connection

The Database Connection URL jdbc:default:connection allows a Java method to get the Connection of the SQL statement that called it. This is the standard (SQL standard, Part 13 SQL Routines and Java) mechanism to obtain the nested connection object. The method would get a Connection:

Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(
    "jdbc:default:connection");

Loading a JDBC driver in a database-side routine is not required.

Related concepts
Database-side JDBC procedures using non-nested connections
Database-side JDBC procedures and SQLExceptions
User-defined SQLExceptions