I use HSQL DB (http://hsqldb.org/) for testing with both Kodo JDO and Hibernate. It works well and is very fast. This is what I have in my pom.xml
<dependency> <groupId>hsqldb</groupId> <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId> <version>1.7.2.2 <http://1.7.2.2></version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> Chris -- Enterprise POJO consulting - http://www.chrisrichardson.net Author, POJOs in Action - http://www.manning.com/crichardson Enterprise POJOs blog - http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com On 11/9/05, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We currently have a system that uses JDO (Kodo implementation) for our > persistence layer. In order to test these persistent classes, I need to > have a JDBC driver and compliant database running. I would really like > to make the process completely self contained like the Maven Wagon > builds. ie download a jar from somewhere that gives me an ultra light db > implementation and jdbc driver and run my tests on it. > > Does anyone know if such a thing exists and where I might find it? > Alternatively, does anyone know of any decent file based jdbc drivers > that are open source? > > Thanks. > >