Kathey Marsden wrote:
> For the newcomers, focusing on quality items as outlined in DERBY-257 > can add great value and learning potential with very low (often no) > risk. Contributions of this type I think deserve our highest level of > attention. I think it is everyone's itch to bring more high quality > contributions and contributors to the project. Agreed, and I think we could do a better job of encouraging more contributions "around" the engine as a way to get started with Derby. Examples are: Sample applications. Admin/Query servlets - I was talking to Susan Cline on the flight back from Apachecon last night and she said it would be great if there was some web-based api to Derby, either as an example or as a starting point for a complete web-based api. The servlets coupled with an embedded servlet container like Jetty would be very cool. Telnet access - I was working with Apache James and they use telnet for remote admin, login and then issue statements like adduser fred pass92word Seems like a telnet access to a database would be cool, using ij as the scripting language, e.g. telnet derbyhost:2253 <user/password stuff> ij> select * from my table; ... Since James does this in Java it has to be possible for Derby, and then one could access a Derby database without installing java or derbyools on your client. I looked at the James code quickly, but didn't see the code for the telnet server. I'm sure there are other ideas as well. Dan.
