Hi,

> Where do I start? Interclient or the new one?

New one :) Interclient 2.01 that is available from SourceForge is not
supported. So, even if you find some bugs there, most likely you will
be the only person that will want to fix them. Unlike InterClient, our
type 4 driver is developed and supported.

> How do I get it working anyway? The downloads seem a little bare on
> information and this is my first attempt at this java stuff <g>

The best way is to check it out directly from SourceForge CVS. Module
name is 'client-java'. In src/build/ directory you will find build
script for ant. In addition, you will need all libraries that are in
the src/lib/ directory at runtime (probably except JDBC 3 classes).

JDBC URL is: jdbc:firebirdsql:host/port:path/to/database.gdb
Driver name: org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver

One of the most popular questions is how to specify character set for
connection. By default, character set for connection is NONE. You can
change this setting by specifying the 'lc_ctype' property in driver
properties. If your environment does not support JDBC driver
properties, you can encode them in URL using standard param encoding
scheme (for example:
jdbc:firebirdsql:localhost/3050:my.gdb?lc_ctype=WIN1252)

Hope this will help you to start.

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy