Is the derby project still active?

[Daniel Fitzgerald]

It has been quite a while since any new builds or enhancements have been 
done on this software. Is this project dead or in stasis? It has it's 
niche i.e. small footprint and can be packaged with your jars ( albeit 
cumbersome). I read a white-paper a while ago about performance but the 
problems didn't seem insurmountable and indeed, it alluded to possible 
solutions.

Anyway, I downloaded it and tried it out; it seemed fine as an 
application data repository (in SQL) so I hope the project doesn't die 
on the vine. It doesn't seem like it even got a chance to get out into 
the public at large for a proper trial. Just my thoughts. Thank you.