Hi, as you probably know, OpenOffice.org ships with HSQLDB as its database engine. If you're interested in helping to make this integration even better, please read on!
The latest stable version of HSQLDB is 1.7.3.3, the version currently shipped with the developer snapshots of OOo [1] is 1.8.0 RC9, plus some modifications. Yesterday, HSQLDB 1.8.0 RC10 was released, which should be the final release candidate of HSQLB before declaring 1.8.0 as stable, and before finally including 1.8.0 in OOo 2.0. RC10 saw quite some changes compared to RC9. Though the HSQLDB and the OOo team stressed this new version a lot, there's still the potential of some undiscovered problems. What we'd like to ask you is to download this latest HSQLDB version [2], put in into your latest OOo installation [3], and do any tests you can imagine (or simply work with it a little, as you would normally do). If you find any problems with RC10, please report them in [email protected] instead of submitting a new issue, and both teams will start to address them. There is one known issue currently: The "Save" dialog in the table design windows shows a "Schema" list box. This is because HSQLDB now supports schemas. OOo is currently not expected to support this feature in the UI, but the table design doesn't know, yet :). An implication of this is that if you manually tamper with schemas (for instance by sending a "CREATE SCHEMA ..." statement via Tools|SQL, and then creating new tables in this schema), this might yield various unwanted results, so doing so is discouraged at the moment. Thanks for your support Ciao Frank [1]http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html [2]http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23316&release_id=295980 [3]replace program/classes/hsqldb.jar with the one downloaded from [1] -- - Frank Sch�nheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
