Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Derby Project Charter (on the web site) states that it should be
"Pure Java", but it does not say anything about portability for anything
but the _code_.
Can one, for example, safely assume that the on-disk database format is
platform-independent? I have read it somewhere, but I don't see it in
the charter, so do I have a guarantee that this is an invariant?
The on-disk database format is, by design, portable, actually in Java
it's very hard to do anything else.
You know it's one of the two things that I take for granted with Derby,
because of Java, and always forget to tell people of this useful
benefit. The other is that Unicode is supported and is the only
character set supported, as it's a super-set of all character sets.
Interestingly both of these useful facts are omitted from the
documentation. :-(
logged DERBY-711 to get this into the docs.
-jean
