Satheesh Bandaram wrote: >I find current behavior inconvinient... I am trying to understand why Derby >doesn't allow soft-upgrade from previous releases. > Regardless of whether we provide a mechanism allow soft upgrade, I think that databases that have been modified by alpha software should not be accessible by a released Derby version and thus be allowed carry any undetected corruption with them into a supported production environment where we really can't tell that it was the alpha software that did the damage. So whatever mechanism we provide to allow that should clearly communicate that this copy of the database is never going to see a production Derby release again.
Kathey
