The main added value is support. At this point we don't do anything but
ship a stable release of Derby (this current download is a distribution
of 10.1.1).
Part of the charter of Java DB is to not "fork" from Apache Derby. At
some point Sun may add value on top of Derby (like Cloudscape does with
its installer and other things) but we wouldn't ship our own "special"
version of the bits that come out of Apache.
David
Legolas Woodland wrote:
Congratulation for a new product release.
What is benefits of Sun DB over Derby ?
does sun adds some values to its own distribution ? if yes , then what
are those enhancement / new features.
Thanks
David W. Van Couvering wrote:
Good news for Apache Derby - another Big Company has gotten behind
Derby and is providing support for it. Sun's Java DB is now
officially available for download at
http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=44244f49
Java DB's "home" can be found at
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javadb
Also, the article talking about how to use Java DB in the desktop got
top billing at http://java.sun.com
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/javadb/
Disclaimer: if you hadn't noticed by my email address and my
enthusiasm for Java DB, I work for Sun :)
