[From MSDN Blogs]
This version of the JDBC driver supports features introduced in the JDBC 4.0 API, including:
- national character set data types: NCHAR, NVARCHAR, LONGNVARCHAR, NCLOB
- SQLXML data type
- Wrapper interface to access SQL Server JDBC Driver specific methods
- More…
The article continues at
http://blogs.msdn.com/jdbcteam/archive/2009/04/03/announcing-microsoft-sql-server-jdbc-driver-2-0.aspx