Section 24.5 Setting up a Java DB Database

• Oracle’s pure Java database Java DB (p. 1060) is installed with the JDK on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

• Java DB has both an embedded version and a network version.

• The Java DB software is located in the db subdirectory of your JDK’s installation directory.

• Java DB comes with several files that enable you to configure and run it. Before executing these files from a command window, you must set the environment variable JAVA_HOME to refer to the JDK’s exact installation directory.

• You use the setEmbeddedCP.bat or setEmbeddedCP file (depending on your OS platform) to configure the CLASSPATH for working with Java DB embedded databases.

• The Java DB ij tool allows you to interact with Java DB from ...

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