The following sections describe general aspects of Java DB that impact upgrading to Java ES 5 Update 1 (Release 5U1):
Release 5U1 Java DB is a maintenance release that fixes bugs in Release 5 Java DB and provides some minor enhancements.
The following table shows the supported Java DB upgrade paths to Java ES Release 5U1.
Table 6–1 Upgrade Paths to Java ES 5 Update 1: Java DB 10.2.2
Java ES Release |
Java DB Release |
General Approach |
Reconfiguration Required |
---|---|---|---|
Release 5 |
Java DB 10.1.3.1 |
Maintenance upgrade. Apply patches. |
None |
The following table shows the type of data that could be impacted by an upgrade of Java DB software.
Table 6–2 Java DB Data Usage
Type of Data |
Location |
Usage |
---|---|---|
Configuration data |
Instance configuration is application-specific and is stored in the Java DB database. |
Configuration of Java DB instance |
Persistent data |
Database directories and their contents are application-specific. Their location is specified by the database connection URL, jdbc:derby:full path to database. |
Database and user certificates |
Release 5U1 Java DB is backwardly compatible with the Release 5 version.
Java DB has dependency only on the J2SE shared component (see Table 1–8)