To install Java DB you
must first download a Java DB install file from the Java DB Web
site.
Navigate your Web browser to http://developers.sun.com/javadb/downloads/. Click Download.
Follow the instructions on subsequent pages. You will need to register for a
Sun Online Account if you have not done so before.
Extract the downloaded package, which contains the
distribution of Java DB. This distribution contains scripts, libraries, and
demonstration programs. The extracted installation contains
several subdirectories:
- The bin subdirectory contains the scripts for executing utilities
and setting up the environment.
- The demo subdirectory contains the demonstration programs.
- The docs subdirectory contains the Java DB documentation.
- The frameworks subdirectory contains older scripts for executing
utilities and setting up the environment. These are provided in this release
for backward compatibility. These scripts are deprecated in favor of the scripts
in the bin directory, and will be removed in a future release.
- The javadoc subdirectory contains the api documentation
that was generated from source code comments.
- The lib subdirectory contains the Java DB .jar files.