Installing and configuring Derby
Getting Started with Derby
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Installing and configuring Derby
This section will help you install and configure Derby.
After you complete the installation:
· Access the
to get up and running with Derby. This tutorial
demonstrates how to use Derby in the embedded and client/server configurations.
· If you are an experienced JDBC programmer, you should also see the
.
Installing Derby
To install Derby you must download the distribution and extract the package.
There are several distributions of Derby, including binary and source distributions for the
latest official release and for previous official releases.
The distributions are:
· The bin distribution contains scripts, demonstration programs, documentation, and
the optimized .jar files. These .jar files are the same set of .jar files that are in the lib
distribution.
· The lib distribution contains an optimized, small footprint set of the Derby .jar files
for deployment.
· The lib-debug distribution contains a larger footprint set of the Derby .jar files that
are useful for debugging or reporting issues.
· The src distribution contains the source files that are used to create the bin, lib, and
lib-debug distributions.
> Important: The remainder of the instructions in this guide assume that you have
downloaded the bin distribution.
To install Derby:
Navigate your Web browser to
. The
downloads page provides links to the distributions of Derby This page also contains a link
to
, where you can find information on
how to use the Subversion version control system to access the Derby source code for a
specific branch or for the development trunk.
Download the ZIP or TAR archive for the distribution that you want to use.
Extract the downloaded package. The extracted installation contains several
subdirectories:
· The demo subdirectory contains the demonstration programs.
· The bin subdirectory contains the scripts for executing utilities and setting up the
environment.
· The javadoc subdirectory contains the
api
documentation that was generated from
source code comments.
· The docs subdirectory contains the Derby documentation.
· The lib subdirectory contains the Derby .jar files.
· The test subdirectory contains regression tests for Derby.
Setting up your environment
Derby includes several scripts that run the Derby tools and utilities. How you run those
scripts depends on the configuration that you want to use to access the Derby database
and tools.
