I know navigating the Derby manuals and finding what you are looking for can be a gruesome experience for both users and developers.
Various tricks can be used to make this easier, e.g. searching all manuals combined into one PDF (such as those found here: http://dbtg.thresher.com/derby/test/DerbyDocs/index.html ), or using advanced Google searches. Inspired by David's blog post (and comments) at http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/archive/2007/06/searching_the_d.html I created my own custom (google) search engine for searching the Derby docs and public API. It's available for everyone to use, the URL is http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=013165901514945153857%3A6lvlcohwpjo (unfortunately not so easy to remember). I've made some refinements for searching a particular Derby version, or a particular manual in the doc trunk. There is currently a max limit of 16 refinements. It's possible to volunteer to contribute to this search engine for those who feel inspired, but maybe it would be better to somehow create something similar that is "owned" by apache, and include it on our web page? Anyway, I hope this is useful to someone. -- John
