Not looked @ derby. DB-config/support in Smartfrog is on my lower
priority todo list for march, but I was going to focus on mysql
because its one we have a private component for that can just be
pulled into the public repository with the addition of an adequate set
of unit tests. If we did derby afterwards (very low priority, I'd give
oracle more time), then I'd know about installing/using it.
-steve
Derby is mostly interesting as the syntax is (almost exactly) the same
as DB2, so essentially you get to kill two birds with one stone (syntax
tests wise anyway). Hope that translates to non-native English ant
people :).
My only problem with it was that the db engine itself is an apache
licensed download from apache.org, but the jdbc driver (last time I
played with it) was only available from IBM (requiring registration to
login and download) - can't get to the website to check right now if the
jdbc driver is available direct from apache yet. I even had a trawl
through the source code for the main project, looked like it needed a
*lot* of cleanup to remove commented out code, unused variables (and
references to Cloudscape in javadoc...) etc - PMD had a fit :). So
commercial code hey - not so nice when you get a chance to lift the lid.
Oracle now have a 'lite' database which is free to use on single
processor machines (AFAIK), so to test on Oracle isn't outside the
realms of possibility, but it's a pain in the arse to configure
correctly, and it's not friendly wrt memory consumption - I'd definitely
think again before running it on Gump - even if it's almost a 'de facto'
standard that is most used in 'enterprises' and would be of benefit to
test features against.
Kev
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