Richard,

> You know, I had problems initially with this as well until I saw
> the DriverExample - then it all worked fine. The big difference
> was the database URL. Formerly, Interclient (and every other JDBC
> driver I'd used including PostgreSQL) had a connection string that
> looked like this:
>
> jdbc:interbase://myHost/opt/interbase/examples/employee.gdb
>
> now it looks like this:
>
> jdbc:firebirdsql:myHost/3050:/opt/interbase/examples/employee.gdb

Well... One can argue about URLs, Oracle for example has

jdbc:oracle:thin:user/passwd@...:1521:ora_db

:)

> I'm not totally familiar with the JDBC specifications, so I don't
> know if the URL was changed to be in accordance with JDBC 2.0 or
> something else. I'm just curious - why did it change?

As far a I know, URL format is not specified. When I joined the
project it was already so, so nobody changed it later. Maybe it was
easier to parse the string into components... If you wish, you can
check org.firebirdsql.jgds.GDS_Impl.DBAttachInfo and create a patch
that will support both schemes. If nobody has anything against it, we
will commit it to the CVS. Personally I do not have anything against
it but I would not invest time into this as well.

Alejandro? David? Blas? Any comments on this?

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy