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Bernt Johnsen

Bernt M. Johnsen is technical lead on Apache Derby at Sun's Database Technology Group in Trondheim, Norway. He has 5 years database experience (database management, JDBC drivers, distributed SQL execution). Prior work includes internet banking, compilers and expert systems. He has a wife and 3 boys, and likes to climb (indoor, ice, glaciers, rock) and to kayak in his spare time.

 

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Java DB 10.2 beta is now available for download. Try it out!

Posted by bernt on August 12, 2006 at 12:47 PM PDT

Java DB (or Derby, or Cloudscape if you prefer) 10.2 beta is available for download at http://people.apache.org/~rhillegas/10.2.1.0-beta/.

There has not been a feature release since august 2005, so this should be what Java DB/Derby users are waiting for.

Do you need to learn how to use transactions? Again?

Posted by bernt on June 6, 2006 at 6:34 AM PDT

Statement: A lot of programmers do not know how to use transactions.
You may now think that I miss the target completely, but think for a while.

Very often they (and myself, I admit) think of transactions as atomic
changes to the database and write code like

...

Open Java DB

Posted by bernt on December 13, 2005 at 12:34 PM PST

Today at ApacheCon in San
Diego, Sun's Tim Bray said that href="http://db.apache.org/derby">Apache Derby will be distributed
by Sun as the open Java DB.

Java DB (or Derby) will appear in several Sun products and
NetBeans IDE 5.0 will have a Derby (or Java DB) plugin.

So, now we're goi

Apache Derby 10.1.2.1 Released

Posted by bernt on November 24, 2005 at 1:45 AM PST

Apache Derby, the pure Java
SQL database, has released version href="http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10.1.2.1.cgi">10.1.2.1.

The changes since official release 10.1.1.0 include:

  • Globalization of the 10.1 error messages.
  • Eclipse 3.1 support
  • Ability to run on Mac OS X with no special configuration
  • Support for direc

Database benchmarks

Posted by bernt on October 14, 2005 at 2:03 AM PDT

In response to my A Read-only database in a jar? one of the commenters remarked that "Derby is alright but is much slower than HSQL" and referred to a benchmark at http://jamie.ideasasylum.com/notebook/index.php?id=4.

And guess what?

A Read-only database in a jar?

Posted by bernt on October 3, 2005 at 2:26 PM PDT

In Norway, all wines and liquors and beers stronger than 4.75 volume percent are sold at Vinmonopolet a state monopoly (Literally "The Wine Monopoly").

What has this to do with a read only database? Well, I once had an application on my Palm which contained Vinmonopolet's complete catalogue.

Comments on "Easy String Concatenation Considered Harmful?"

Posted by bernt on September 28, 2005 at 2:15 PM PDT

I received some interesting comments on Easy String Concatenation Considered Harmful? and want to comment some of them.

I too love the easy string concatenation of Java.

Easy String Concatenation Considered Harmful?

Posted by bernt on September 20, 2005 at 5:33 AM PDT

This is not about the amount of String objects generated when you do
string concatenation in Java.

JavaZone, Norway

Posted by bernt on September 17, 2005 at 7:09 AM PDT

Since this is my first blog on weblogs.java.net from a small country, Norway, I'll start with a short comment on Norway & Java.

Norway has a population of around 5 million people, no large cities, lots of beautiful nature, has become rich from vast oil resources and fisheries, and does not bother to be a part of the EU.

Small country?