It is now a year since we released HSQLDB 1.60. There is something special to the HSQLDB project and that is: We did not start from scratch, our charter is to continue and improve HypersonicSQL that was developed by Thomas Meuller.
We would not achieve this just by paying homage to Thomas (which he very well deserves). We have extended the capabilites of this software, well aware that over 30,000 people have downloaded the current release version of HSQLDB. These are developers who use HSQLDB in their projects. Personally I would like this to be 300,000 next time we look back. 1.7.0 RC4 will be out very soon. The performance improvements that I wrote about on Saturday have been verified by different tests. And all the enhancements that were contributed as patches by users and developers, or made afterwards by Campbell, Bob. Peter, or myself, are there. Bob has revamped the org.hsqldb.util package. This is a not specific to HSQLDB. If you want to transfer data between Informix and PostgreSQL databases, Transfer Tool is the best tool you can get anywhere. This is an area we can extend. A plug-in structure is now in place, allowing you to contribute dialect-specific conversions between any pair of databases. Also this week, we will hopefully have the CVS structure in place. We will set up branches for different features or new developments, as was suggested in the Open Discussion Forum. HSQLDB has always been a project driven by the its users. Many improvements in the new release were contributed by them. I hope we move forward with more active participation by our users, contributors and developers. Please let us know what you what, how you can contribute and where you think we should focus. Either post to the list, or myself. Fred Toussi _______________________________________________ hsqldb-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hsqldb-developers Sponsored by http://www.ThinkGeek.com/
