On 6/22/06, Rick Hillegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Last week, Sun Microsystems announced that it will bundle Derby with the next major release of the reference jdk, Java SE 6, also known as Mustang or jdk1.6. If you download the latest Mustang build, you will see that it contains our Derby 10.2.0.3 snapshot in the "db" directory parallel to "lib" and "bin".
Is this Derby or JavaDB ? I've had a quick look at the JDK, and I could not find a single link to the Derby project (nor to JavaDB for that matter), only a NOTICE stating that Derby is included. I think this should be changed, so that the unwary JDK user exactly knows where to look for info. Perhaps a README file would be the best place ? Also, I think the version info given should be more detailed by stating the exact Derby version (e.g. 10.2.0) once the JDK is finalized (probably in the README). I imagine that the Derby update cycle will synchronize somewhat with the JDK update cycle, and then the revision number (third part of the version number) becomes important. Btw, to which files does the COPYRIGHT containing an IBM copyright notice refer to ? A search in the Derby sources did not bring up any source copyrighted by IBM.
This is big news. It means that over the course of the next year, Derby will turn up on the desktops of millions of developers. Hopefully, Derby's user and developer communities will both grow dramatically.
Just out of curiosity, what is the reason that the JDK bundles a database (and the JRE does not) ? I mean, there was quite a few criticism in the blogosphere, so could you perhaps elaborate a bit ? cheers, Tom
