After looking into this some more, I think a problem with the
UsesOfDerby page is that it consists entirely of links to other sites
(off the wiki). There are a number of apparently obsolete IBM links,
including one to the "IBM DB2 JDBC Universal Driver" under "JDBC
Drivers." I feel hesitant to remove this (or any other) link, since I am
not really familiar with what IBM supports and doesn't support, for
earlier versions of Derby in particular (the links seem current as of
Derby 10.1).
The HintsAndTips page actually seems to be where people put links to
other Derby wiki pages. It might make more sense to use HintsAndTips for
the DB2 info.
Kim
Kim Haase wrote:
Rick Hillegas wrote:
Kim Haase wrote:
Rick Hillegas wrote:
Kim Haase wrote:
Kathey Marsden wrote:
Alan Burlison wrote:
Related question: If you want to connect to a Derby instance
using something other than Java (C, Python Perl etc), what's the
recommended mechanism? Google suggests the DB2 driver, but most
of the articles and howto's are several years old, and date back
to the Cloudscape days.
Hi Alan,
IBM no longer provides support for the DB2 driver with Derby and
is not testing it with new releases. It would be great to see an
open source initiative for an ODBC driver for Derby. Although
this is often requested, I don't think we have a Jira entry for it
yet. Perhaps you could open one.
There are a couple of topics on the DB2 driver in the Derby
Administration Guide. Should these be removed, do you think? If so,
I could file a JIRA issue for this. Possibly we should just add a
note about the lack of support?
Thanks,
Kim Haase
If the driver is no longer supported and isn't being tested against
new Derby releases, then it makes sense to me to remove references
from the Derby user manuals. Maybe the information could migrate to
the wiki along with a note stating that the DB2 driver is not
supported or tested anymore.
Regards,
-Rick
Thanks for the suggestion, Rick. I can file an issue to remove the
info from the docs. I'm not so familiar with the wiki, so I'm not
quite sure where to move it to --
- The JDBCSupport page? How up to date is this (it predates JDBC 4)?
- HintsAndTips?
- UsesOfDerby?
Kim
Hi Kim,
I have very bad instincts when it comes to categorizing this kind of
information. However, UsesOfDerby sounds like a good place to me.
Thanks,
-Rick
Thanks, Rick, I'll work on that.
Kim
