Hi David, Ragarding read-only databases accessible inside a ZIP/JAR file: http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/dev/devguide/devguide-single.html#cdevdeploy11201
Have you followed the instructions in the section from the URL above? Yes, you could have everything (derby.jar + your application logic classes + the database itself, inside one single JAR) - Have you created one single JAR with everything in it? If you could post the URL you're using to access the DB, it might help. Make sure the database directory path inside the JAR is a valid one. --francois On 7/5/07, David Leader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Apologies from a newbie, but I cannot find how to do what I want in the archives or docs, despite spending some considerable time looking. What I want ultimately is to distribute a Java GUI app that allows users to make predefined queries of a 20MB db - currently on MySQL, but to be ported to Derby. I am working on Mac OSX-style unix, but distribute for Windows as well. As a first stage towards this I have been using toy/demo applications and databases in Derby. I have managed to put my app class files and the contents of the derby.jar in a jar file with an appropriate manifest, so that if I run this either from the command line or by double-clicking it works - as long as my toy database in the same directory. However if I move my toy database inside the jar file it is not found. I could, of course distribute a jar and a dB, but I'd like to wrap it all as one application. (I'm used to making .app files for the Mac using Apple's Jar Bundler and and .exe files for Windows using exe4j, but Jar Bundler doesn't want to take the db directory.) Can anyone tell me how to go about packaging the java app, the derby.jarand my own database for distribution? David ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
