Hi,

the old really standalone tools are linked in the first message of
this thread. They are obsolete now.

The new official migration .jar addon is here 
http://h2database.com/h2mig_pagestore_addon.jar
and can be used with the next release (it is now included in SVN).

Regards

Christian




On Jul 3, 11:04 am, Thotheolh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Christain. May I know the url to the standalone migration jar file?
> I tried to search the h2 website for the standalone download but
> couldn't find it.
>
> Thanks alot.
>
> Regards,
> Thotheolh.
>
> On Jul 3, 4:54 pm, Christian Peter <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Thotheolh,
>
> > Thomas and I work on a solution which soon will be integrated and will
> > eventually has the following features:
>
> > - Default H2 release can be used
> > - Standalonge migration .jar is available from the h2 homepage
> > - If H2 finds the migration classes, it will convert the database via
> > "script to" and "runscript from" automatically
>
> > This should meet your requirements.
>
> > Regards
>
> > Christian
>
> > On Jul 3, 7:35 am, Thotheolh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I felt that what we need is just a standalone official "migrate.jar"
> > > or a compact package of tools downloadable on the H2 website. As long
> > > as the H2 file storage format doesn't change, then the migrate tool
> > > would not be updated and allow cross migration between different
> > > formats of H2 storage if ever there's any more H2 file formats to be
> > > created.
>
> > > In this way, we would have a highly compact migration tool not stuck
> > > to any H2 version where you need certain old versions of H2 (1.2.128)
> > > to open the database and migrate then you jump back to the latest
> > > (1.2.138). That's not going to be an elegant solution.
>
> > > With a standalone migrate tool, the user could simply just add it to
> > > the application and run file format migrations quietly so as not to
> > > alarm the app user and the main H2 distribution could remain as light
> > > as possible not weighted down by an additional migrate tool.
>
> > > I have a couple of applications I made still running the old format
> > > and I could not migrate them without running into complex troubles and
> > > using modified distributions.
>
> > > Sorry, Christian, your modified distribution is a good idea but the
> > > problem is that for every new H2 release, you need to release a
> > > modified distribution and this is not elegant solution to the long
> > > standing issue.
>
> > > For now, if I want to migrate my old H2 format to the page store, I
> > > need Christian's modified package but I hope an official standalone
> > > migrate tool would forever solve this unresolved issue.
>
> > > Looking forward to the final elegant solution to put this unresolved
> > > issue to rest.
>
> > > Regards,
> > > Thotheolh.

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