Java News from Monday, August 8, 2005

The Apache Database Project has released Apache Derby 10.1.1.0 (formerly Cloudscape), an open source SQL database written in pure Java that supports JDBC. New features in this release include:

• A network client driver
• Support for J2ME/CDC/Foundation with JSR-169 JDBC subset
• Online compress functionality for reclaiming disk space during operation
• XA support for Network Server
• Identifiers can contain up to 128 characters
• SQL INTERSECT, EXCEPT and SYNONYM
• JDBC Updatable Result Sets
• ORDER by expressions
• Allow insertions into an identity column
• Support for explicit Java method signature in function and procedure definitions