Hi Martijn,

> A local app with Eclipse.

What kind of app you want to write? GUI? If yes, be ready to spend
more time on UI than on database connectivity. In this case you can
already start learning writing GUI applications in Java - be sure that
JayBird 1.5 will be released before you learn Swing completely (Swing
has the same position in Java as VCL in Delphi but from my POV is more
complex than VCL) ;). You should check SWT (UI components from Eclipse
project), some people say that SWT is easier/better than Swing.

If you just want to learn using Java with Firebird, I would start with
web applications (servlets and JSP).

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy