5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method implements Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method implements Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). 6. The method of claim 5 , wherein receiving the connection request comprises receiving a custom Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that encodes a JDBC URL containing a target resource URL, and a target alias for retrieving the credentials from the credential manager.