On Jan 21, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding as well, but I thought he was asking about
> ant
> task support for starting/stopping HSQLDBs (and possibly other
> maintenance
> commands, like add/create database).
Indeed. Since I don't run a standalone HSQLDB server, I need to tell
something to create the database. My solution was to start up an
embedded instance (in this case, embedded in that ant task). The
embedded instance comes up, is accessed with a JDBC URL, the create db
& table queries are issued, and then the instance is shutdown. While
true, the HSQLDB files can just be copied (and that's actually what I
do after the server shuts down), the server management is key. I
wouldn't want to start up an external process and not shut it down
before grabbing the files, since therein lies danger -- actually I
think it's not even possible on some systems due to file locks.
-- Kevin
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