I have to say that I'm thrilled that interest is picking up in this group
and on getting an up-to-date JDBC driver for Interbase/Firebird.

Having said that, I'd like to help - or at least to follow the
discussion/development with some degree of competence. In order to do that,
I need to get up to speed on the implementation of JDBC drivers. I'm fairly
experienced w/ their use and Java in general, but have no knowledge of how
to implement one. So where do I start? Is there any documentation online?
Of course most of Sun's stuff is on use, not implementation, but there's
probably something tucked away on their site, right? Any recommended books?

Thanks,

Kelly Harrison
NetMediaOne, LLC