ok.  so I know that I cannot (extend) an interface but I got your
attention.

Consider the following:

public class DBconnection {

public Connection conn;
public boolean error=false;

public DBconnection() {
   String URL=new String("jdbc:postgresql://localhost/mydatabase");
   String UNAME=new String("me");
   String PASSWD=new String("");
   String DRIVER=new String("org.postgresql.Driver");
   try {URL=new String(System.getProperty("URL"));}
   catch (Exception e) {}
   try {UNAME=new String(System.getProperty("UNAME"));}
   catch (Exception e) {}
   try {PASSWD=new String(System.getProperty("PASSWD"));}
   catch (Exception e) {}
   try {DRIVER=new String(System.getProperty("jdbc.drivers"));}
   catch (Exception e) {}
   try {
    Class.forName(DRIVER);
        // load the driver classes
    conn=DriverManager.getConnection(URL,UNAME,PASSWD);
        // get a connection
       }
   catch (Exception e) {
    System.out.println("-- Cannot access DB --");
    System.out.println("jdbc.drivers='"+DRIVER+"'");
    System.out.println("URL='"+URL+"'");
    System.out.println("UNAME='"+UNAME+"'");
    System.out.println("PASSWD='"+PASSWD+"'");
    System.out.println("Exception is:"+e.toString());
    System.out.println("----------------------");
    error=true;
    }
   }

Having to reference the (conn) member to get a connection is a needless
step.  I'd like the above class to implement the Connection interface for
the postgres driver so that the DBConnection object can be used anywhere
that a normal Connection is used.

Here's the booger though.  Completely implementing the Connection
interface in the DBconnection class is a hell-of-a-lot of coding.  Isn't
there a quicker way to make the DBConnection contain the functionality of
Connection without actually implementing it?