Apache Derby White Papers

The names in the left-hand navigation bar are deliberately short to keep it from getting too wide. The actual titles are listed below:

• Derby Engine
  • Derby Engine Architecture Overview
  • Derby JDBC Implementation Notes
  • Dan Debrunner's Derby Internals Presentation (Open Office format) from the 2004 Colorado Software Summit.

• Integration
  • Running DOTS (Database open Source Test Suite) with Derby
  • Resources
  • Miscellaneous Integration Topics

If you have figured out how something works in Derby or how to do something cool and have produced a white paper you would like to contribute, please post it to the derby-dev@db.apache.org mail list.

As time permits, somebody will take the document from the derby-dev@db.apache.org list and put it on the Derby web site. You can speed the posting process up by testing your white paper in Forrest to verify it works well before you post it to derby-dev@db.apache.org.

It is easiest to incorporate files that are already in one of the formats listed below:

• HTML (an example is Derby JDBC Implementation Notes).
• XML, using the Forrest DTD (an example is Derby Engine Architecture Overview).
• ASCII text embedded in XML (an example is the BUILDING.txt file).

That much said, even though your favorite word processing program can produce an HTML file, that doesn't necessarily mean that forrest can read it and do something visually pleasing with it. If forrest can't consume your document, or you don't like what forrest did with it, it can be included in its native HTML on the site -- it just won't have the forrest-generated left hand navigation and top banner. An example is Running DOTS (Database open Source Test Suite) with Derby.