Using the Windows Installer to Install IBM Cloudscape on Windows—Attention Developers!

One of IBM Cloudscape's extra features is a Java-based graphical installation program. If you were to install Apache Derby, you would not have access to this program (though remember, the code that is ultimately placed on your system or device is the same).

The installation program for IBM Cloudscape really installs a development environment, not a single program or just the database. Consequently, the IBM Cloudscape installation program is targeted at developers and comes with very little configuration for the programmer or power user.

When deploying Apache Derby or IBM Cloudscape for production purposes, chances are that you will not use the graphical installation ...

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