At 08:59 AM 4/18/01 -0400, you wrote:

>
> 3. My opinion is that the DatabaseMetadata calls should be implemented by
> adding stored procedures wrapping the necessary system table queries to
> The java driver can then simply call these
> I'm not quite sure how to assure that the
> Is it appropriate to add them to base
> Otherwise
> an installation step will be necessary... not so much fun..
>

I think you're asking for trouble here. First, it's a pain to add
the stored procedures to any database you want to access. Second,
as soon as second release of a JDBC driver there will be stored
procedure version numbers. You will hate yourself in the morning.

Jim Starkey