The path name must do one of the following:
The path separator in the path name is a forward slash (
You can specify only databases that are local to the machine on which the JVM is running. NFS file systems on UNIX and remote shared files on Windows (//machine/directory) are not guaranteed to work. Using derby.system.home and forward slashes is recommended practice for platform independent applications.
If two different database path name values, relative or absolute, refer to
the same actual directory, they are considered equivalent. This means that
connections to a database through its absolute path name and its relative path
name are connections to the same database. Within