Re: Driver registration, Derby drivers and Derby versions

2020-07-08 Thread Russell Bateman
Rick, This is helpful to understand. I have noticed as I perused myriad examples of third-party use-Derby examples that how Derby is set up seems to have changed in past versions. Some authors have pointed out Java versions and Derby versions in relevance to their samples. (And, I prefer

Re: Driver registration, Derby drivers and Derby versions

2020-07-08 Thread Rick Hillegas
Hi Russell, This is a little complicated because it involves a bit of history. Derby and Java grew up together. The core of Derby is the Cloudscape database engine, which appeared around 1996, close to the the appearance of Java itself. Two significant events in the evolution of Java have

Driver registration, Derby drivers and Derby versions

2020-07-07 Thread Russell Bateman
How do the myriad Derby drivers work? I am using Apache Derby in-memory with no daemon or outside dependencies in support of being called from JUnit tests. This is working pretty well, but what it's going to be doing underneath will eventually cause me to walk the following road, I think. I