I've added a new driver whos database instance is managed externally. Unlike the embeded driver if the database is not available the driver will fail to load. It's designed specifically for use in environments where there an external process is managing the lifecycle of the database.
The patch also includes some updates to database to prevent a registration race condition (outlined in an earlier email). This has some flow on effects in the embeded driver. I've been able to run all the test EXCEPT the xmlrpc one as I haven't figured out how to make it work :) (I can't run it without the patches either). http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21402 -k.
