Hi,

> Well if there are data integration features, that those would work
> with JayBird, I don't know how many tools I have seen in various
> environments, that use some proprietary data handling scheme, that
> only works with certain databases.

JayBird is JDBC driver and almost nothing beyond the JDBC driver (JCA
connectivity I consider to belong to JDBC driver). So, any tool that
is able to work with JDBC driver should be ok. I was able to reverse
engineer database in Together ControlCenter without any problems. So I
suspect that it will work in other tools too.

Both IDEs have some JDBC integration features but I did not try them.

> Is there an ability to create a user interface with either, a la
> Delphi?

In JBuilder - yes, in Eclipse - there are some plugins, but I never
tried them. However, I suspect that in order to use database-aware UI
components from Borland you will need to buy at least Professional
version of JBuilder. Anyway, I'm bad advisor here, since I never
developed any GUI for a database in Java. Also be prepared that Swing
is quite different from Delphi VCL.

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy