Basically, Metadata is data about data.

In context of JDBC, there may be two types of metadata.

1. Describing information about the Resultset object. i.e, if u have applied a query that fetches some result. this metadata describes information about how many columns have been fetched, their names etc.

2. Second One describes about the database connection

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