> So the native stuff does belong to JDBC Type 2.

Yup.

> The rest is JDBC type 4

Right.

> JayBird does not have a JDBC type 3 driver.

Yes.

> So on gentoo we will have to ebuilds jdbc2-jaybird and jdbc4-jaybird.
> One being for native local apps JNI, and the later being for remote
> client/server pure Java.
>
> Correct?

More or less.. Except that jaybird-full-2.0.x.jar contains code to support
type 2 and type 4 drivers already (except libjaybird2.so).

Roman