Yes this is simply a form of packaged database that Derby supports. It's there because some unittests are using derby to test the JDBC module of MetaModel.
2013/12/19 Henry Saputra <[email protected]> > Looks like it is only concern if the jar files is "executable" instead > of just data. > > Is the derby_testdb.jar just contains test data? > > - Henry > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Henry Saputra <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I found one jar in the source release: > > > > hsaputra@hsaputra-ubuntu:~/open/incubator-metamodel$ find . | grep > ".jar" > > ./jdbc/src/test/resources/derby_testdb.jar > > > > Technically we only vote on source code to release and should not > > contains any binaries including jar files. > > > > Is there a way to pull this binary from maven repo central and build > > it with script before test is executed? > > > > - Henry > > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Ankit Kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> After some discussions and agreements here I send again the VOTE > >> thread, additionally added the location of the sources as in the > >> staging repository. > >> > >> > >> Please vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache > >> MetaModel(incubating) version 4.0.0. > >> This will be the first incubator release for Metamodel in Apache. > >> > >> The tag to be voted on is > >> v4.0.0-incubating: > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-metamodel.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/MetaModel-4.0.0-incubating > >> > >> Release artifacts are signed with the following > >> key:https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/ankitkumar2711.asc > >> > >> The staging repository for this release can be found > >> at: > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachemetamodel-010/ > >> > >> Source jars can be found here: > >> > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachemetamodel-010/org/apache/metamodel/MetaModel/4.0.0-incubating/ > >> > >> Please vote on releasing this package as Apache MetaModel > 4.0.0-incubating. > >> > >> The vote is open until <17th December 2013 00:00 CET> and passes if a > >> majority of at least 3 IPMC votes are cast. > >> > >> Regards > >> Ankit >
