From derby-user-return-7152-apmail-db-derby-user-archive=db.apache.org@db.apache.org Fri Jul 06 15:22:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-db-derby-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 11627 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2007 14:53:53 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 6 Jul 2007 14:53:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 49529 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jul 2007 07:41:54 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-db-derby-user-archive@db.apache.org Received: (qmail 49493 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jul 2007 07:41:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact derby-user-help@db.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: "Derby Discussion" Delivered-To: mailing list derby-user@db.apache.org Received: (qmail 49480 invoked by uid 99); 6 Jul 2007 07:41:54 -0000 Received: from herse.apache.org (HELO herse.apache.org) (140.211.11.133) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:41:54 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=10.0 tests=MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR,NO_REAL_NAME,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (herse.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [192.18.1.36] (HELO gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com) (192.18.1.36) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:41:48 -0700 Received: from d1-emea-09.sun.com ([192.18.2.119]) by gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l667fMVU023192 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 07:41:26 GMT Received: from conversion-daemon.d1-emea-09.sun.com by d1-emea-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) id <0JKQ00201YOXK400@d1-emea-09.sun.com> (original mail from Dyre.Tjeldvoll@Sun.COM) for derby-user@db.apache.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:41:22 +0100 (BST) Received: from khepri29.sun.com ([129.159.112.241]) by d1-emea-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPSA id <0JKQ001XHYOWAW20@d1-emea-09.sun.com> for derby-user@db.apache.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:41:22 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:41:20 +0200 From: Dyre.Tjeldvoll@Sun.COM Subject: Re: Is the derby project still active? In-reply-to: <468DBCC6.7070804@ncf.ca> Sender: Dyre.Tjeldvoll@Sun.COM To: Derby Discussion Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <468DBCC6.7070804@ncf.ca> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.1 (usg-unix-v) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Daniel Fitzgerald writes: > It has been quite a while since any new builds or enhancements have > been done on this software. Excuse me. Since when is six months "quite a while"? Even for open source projects? > Is this project dead or in stasis? The 892 unread emails in my derby-dev folder says no... > It has it's niche i.e. small footprint and can be packaged with your > jars ( albeit cumbersome). Feel free to suggest a better way of doing it :) > I read a white-paper a while ago about performance > but the problems didn't seem insurmountable and indeed, it alluded to > possible solutions. > > Anyway, I downloaded it and tried it out; it seemed fine as an > application data repository (in SQL) so I hope the project doesn't die > on the vine. Don't think you need to worry. > It doesn't seem like it even got a chance to get out into > the public at large for a proper trial. Just my thoughts. Thank you. Eh... maybe you have not heard that JavaDB (aka Derby) is bundled with JDK 1.6? -- dt