Using ij to connect to a Derby database

[Laura Stewart <sc...@gmail.com>]

The text in the Getting Started Guide says:
"You can use the ij tool to connect to a Derby database."

The word "can" implies that there is another way to connect to a Derby database.
Is there?  If not, we need to remove the word "can" from this sentence.

-- 
Laura Stewart

Re: Using ij to connect to a Derby database

[Craig L Russell <Cr...@Sun.COM>]

Hi Laura,

On Mar 26, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Laura Stewart wrote:

> The text in the Getting Started Guide says:
> "You can use the ij tool to connect to a Derby database."
>
> The word "can" implies that there is another way to connect to a  
> Derby database.
> Is there?

Any program can connect to a Derby database via the Derby driver(s).  
There is a finite but very large set of such programs.

> If not, we need to remove the word "can" from this sentence.

I think the sentence is fine the way it is written.

Craig
>
> -- 
> Laura Stewart

Craig Russell
DB PMC, OpenJPA PPMC
clr@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo

Re: Using ij to connect to a Derby database

[Laura Stewart <sc...@gmail.com>]

Thanks Craig and Ryan, I appreciate the clarification :-)

-- 
Laura Stewart

Re: Using ij to connect to a Derby database

[Ryan P Bobko <ry...@ostrich-emulators.com>]

On Monday 26 March 2007 18:22, Laura Stewart wrote:
> The text in the Getting Started Guide says:
> "You can use the ij tool to connect to a Derby database."
>
> The word "can" implies that there is another way to connect to a Derby
> database. Is there?  If not, we need to remove the word "can" from this
> sentence.

I'd say "can" is appropriate there. If you connect to the database 
programmatically, you don't use ij.

ry

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