There are several distributions of ,
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.
The remainder of the instructions in this guide assume
that you have downloaded the bin distribution.
To install :
Navigate your Web browser to .
The downloads page provides links to the distributions of This
page also contains a link to ,
where you can find information on how to use the Subversion version control
system to access the 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 documentation.
- The lib subdirectory contains the .jar
files.
- The test subdirectory contains regression tests for .