Re: How to supply a Database enabled Application?

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:46:11 -0400
Message-ID:
<nospam-962D31.12461110062008@news-server.woh.rr.com>
In article
<f58e4390-2165-4b48-b62b-d861badc84d5@p25g2000pri.googlegroups.com>,
 "Atharvan :-)" <code333@gmail.com> wrote:

What I mean is, if I use any specific DataBase, then whether I need
to supply that database package ( firebird, H2, MySQL,...) together
with my application or not? I think now It's clear.


Yes, but H2 and Derby are jars; they are perhaps easier to deploy.

Surely I will check derby to know about it's possibilities.
I checked H2. Another small one as Firebird. And that DBDSL, I cannot
able to understand it. I will reread their site again.


The xslt part is very well done, but a bit opaque at first; it's not
essential. I recommend studying the convenient ant build.xml:

<http://dbsdl.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dbsdl/trunk/build.xml>

The parameters used in the "test-sql" ant target are precisely the one's
needed in your Java code.

I'll not jump into a big application before trying it on small
application, or rather How can I ?


Try writing a query against the sample database:

svn co https://dbsdl.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dbsdl/trunk dbsdl
cd dbsdl
ant
javac -cp h2.jar Query.java
java -cp .:h2.jar Query

import java.sql.*;
/**
 * Test enbedded H2
 * @author John B. Matthews
 */
class Query
{
    public static void main (String args []) throws Exception
    {
        Class.forName("org.h2.Driver");
        Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection
                ("jdbc:h2:db/album-archive", "sa", "");

        Statement stmt = conn.createStatement ();
        ResultSet rset = stmt.executeQuery
            ("SELECT Albums.Name FROM Albums");

        while (rset.next ()) {
            String name = rset.getString(1);
            System.out.println(name);
        }
    }
}

John
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