[Wtp-wst-dev] Minutes of Apache Derby telecon, 2004-10-26

[Arthur Ryman <ryman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Attendees: Arthur Ryman, David Fallside,
Kevin Foster, Rajesh Kartha

Derby can run in either an embedded
or network mode. The embedded mode runs in the same process as the accessing
application and can only handle one thread. The network mode can handle
multiple concurrent requests, however, the JDBC driver has not been contributed
to the Derby project. IBM is proposing to host a free, but not Open Source,
JDBC driver, packaged as an Eclipse plug-in.

Rajesh has developed an Eclipse plugin
to start and stop Derby, and lauch the Derby database explorer tool, ij.
This can be used to get us going. The following stages are proposed for
Eclipse integration with the Web Tools project.

1. Add conguration files so Derby can
be used as a JDBC provider. This will allow Derby to be explored by the
WTP data tools, and for SQL statements to be sent to it.
2. Develop a Server adapter so that
Derby can be started/stoped via the Server tooling. The Generic server
adapter will be evaluated first. If that is inadequate, a Java adapter
will be developed.
3. Add support for deploying Java stored
procedures to Derby, and for launching Derby in debug mode so the Java
stored procedures can be debugged.

Arthur Ryman,
Rational Desktop Tools Development

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