I think DERBY-854 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-854) is critical for working with read-only databases in embedded mode. Currently, the JDBC DatabaseMetaData methods are completely broken when running in this mode. Thus, read-only databases cannot work with any tool that imports metadata (which includes most JDBC tools I'm aware of).
Please vote for this bug if you would like to use read-only databases from a zip file. My company would love to ship some example databases in this way but have given up on Derby due to this bug. Alex Miller Chief Architect MetaMatrix -----Original Message----- From: Rick Hillegas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:13 PM To: Derby Discussion; Derby Development Subject: upcoming 10.2 release Dear Derby user community, Yesterday, the Derby developers started a discussion about the timing and contents of the next (10.2) release. A feature freeze date of April 7 was suggested although we have not settled on this date yet. I would estimate that the actual release would appear around two months after feature freeze. Please let us know about any bugs which are particularly important to you and which you would like to see fixed in this release. Thanks, -Rick
