The SQL Extension examples require the Apache Derby jars. The Derby jars are available from http://incubator.apache.org/derby/ The sample batch / script files are configured to look for the derby jars java/samples/extensions/sql directory by default. If you already have derby installed and want to use that implementation. You can do one of the following. 1) set the environment variable DERBY_JAR_DIR to point to the location of derby.jar and derbytools.jar 2) Have the derby.jar and derbytools.jar in your classpath. First create the sample database using Derby. To do this, On Windows execute the command runDerby.bat createdb.sql On Unix sh runDerby.sh createdb.sql You can use the Derby tools to examine the raw database To do this on windows execute the command runDerby.bat At the lj> prompt type the following commands lj> connect 'sampleDB'; lj> select * from import1; To quit the lj session type lj> quit; To Start lj on Unix type sh runDerby.sh Once the sample database has been created, you can run the sample stylesheets using the runXalan script. For some basic examples; runXalan.bat -XSL basic-connection/DumpSQL.xsl This example dumps the raw Document that was produced by the query. runXalan.bat -XSL basic-connection/dbtest.xsl Shows how to manipulate the raw document to produce HTML output