[jira] [Created] (DERBY-7097) Update documentation to allow users to properly use EmbeddedDriver

["Daniel Le Berre (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Daniel Le Berre created DERBY-7097:
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             Summary: Update documentation to allow users to properly use EmbeddedDriver
                 Key: DERBY-7097
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-7097
             Project: Derby
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Documentation
    Affects Versions: 10.15.2.0
            Reporter: Daniel Le Berre


In earlier version of Derby, and as reported in the documentation, the EmbeddedDriver class was in derby.jar.

As such, it was quite easy to deploy a webapp with an embedded derby database: it was sufficient to just add a derby.jar file to the project library.

In current releases of derby (10.15.2.0), the EmbeddedDriver class is no longer in the derby.jar file but in the derbytools.jar file.

```

$ for i in `ls *.jar`; do echo $i ; jar tf $i | grep Driver ; done
derby.jar
org/apache/derby/iapi/jdbc/AutoloadedDriver$1.class
org/apache/derby/iapi/jdbc/AutoloadedDriver.class
org/apache/derby/iapi/jdbc/Driver42.class
org/apache/derby/iapi/jdbc/InternalDriver$1.class
org/apache/derby/iapi/jdbc/InternalDriver$2.class
org/apache/derby/iapi/jdbc/InternalDriver$3.class
org/apache/derby/iapi/jdbc/InternalDriver$4.class
org/apache/derby/iapi/jdbc/InternalDriver$5.class
org/apache/derby/iapi/jdbc/InternalDriver$DaemonThreadFactory.class
org/apache/derby/iapi/jdbc/InternalDriver$LoginCallable.class
org/apache/derby/iapi/jdbc/InternalDriver.class
META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver
derbyLocale_cs.jar
derbyLocale_de_DE.jar
derbyLocale_es.jar
derbyLocale_fr.jar
derbyLocale_hu.jar
derbyLocale_it.jar
derbyLocale_ja_JP.jar
derbyLocale_ko_KR.jar
derbyLocale_pl.jar
derbyLocale_pt_BR.jar
derbyLocale_ru.jar
derbyLocale_zh_CN.jar
derbyLocale_zh_TW.jar
derbyclient.jar
org/apache/derby/client/ClientAutoloadedDriver.class
META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver
derbynet.jar
derbyoptionaltools.jar
derbyrun.jar
derbyshared.jar
derbytools.jar
org/apache/derby/jdbc/ClientDriver.class
org/apache/derby/jdbc/ClientDriver40.class
org/apache/derby/jdbc/EmbeddedDriver.class

```

As such, most of the tutorials found on the internet about "how using derby in embedded mode" are just wrong because they simply mention derby.jar as a dependency.

Worst, derby own documentation is not up to date: as such, I had no way to understand why new releases of this tool that I have been using for more than a decade in the classroom suddenly did not work anymore.

The explanation is finally simple: I just wonder how such impacting decision could be done without proper documentation.

I am also surprised to be the first one reporting this, since the problem exists since at least a year.



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