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Installing Derby
To install Derby you
must download the distribution and extract the package.
There are several distributions of Derby,
including binary and source distributions for the latest official release
and for previous official releases.
The distributions are:
- The bin distribution contains scripts, demonstration programs,
documentation, and the optimized .jar files. These .jar files are the same
set of .jar files that are in the lib distribution.
- The lib distribution contains an optimized, small footprint set
of the Derby .jar files for deployment.
- The lib-debug distribution contains a larger footprint set of the
Derby .jar files that are useful for debugging or reporting issues.
- The src distribution contains the source files that are used to
create the bin, lib, and lib-debug distributions.
Important: The remainder of the instructions in this guide assume
that you have downloaded the bin distribution.
To install Derby:
Navigate your Web browser to http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html.
The downloads page provides links to the distributions of Derby This
page also contains a link to http://db.apache.org/derby/dev/derby_source.html,
where you can find information on how to use the Subversion version control
system to access the Derby source
code for a specific branch or for the development trunk.
Download the ZIP or TAR archive for the distribution that you want to use.
Extract the downloaded package. The extracted installation contains several
subdirectories:
- The demo subdirectory contains the demonstration programs.
- The bin subdirectory contains the scripts for executing utilities
and setting up the environment.
- The javadoc subdirectory contains the api documentation
that was generated from source code comments.
- The docs subdirectory contains the Derby documentation.
- The lib subdirectory contains the Derby .jar
files.
- The test subdirectory contains regression tests for Derby.
- The frameworks subdirectory contains older scripts for executing
utilities and setting up the environment. These are provided in this release
for backward compatibility. These scripts are deprecated in favor of the scripts
in the bin directory, and will be removed in a future release.
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