I there any particular place the driver should be? I downloaded the
firebirdsql-full.jar from the firebird site. Where do I put this
file in order for it to work?

--- In Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com, John Zoetebier
<john.zoetebier@t...> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:42:40 -0000, batsoww <batsoww@y...> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I am new to the world of Firebird and Java and I was

wondering

> > what the basic syntax of the database url and the driver url

would

> > look like. I am reading the database url from a file and passing

it

> > to the DriverManager.connection(Database_URL);
> >
> > I just don't understand how to write the actual URL's in the

correct

> > format in order to connect to the database.
> >
>
> When you download FireBird there is a file FAX.txt.
> From that file:
> ==>
> Two forms of JayBird can be used. FBDriver is used much like the

old

> Interclient driver. FBWrappingDataSource has internal connection

pooling

> capability. Examples of both are included here. Code examples of

many of

> the classes and methods used by JayBird can be found in the

src/test

> subdirectory of the source code available on SourceForge.net, see

question

> 13 below.
>
> JayBird supports two URL syntax formats:
>
> Standard format= jdbc:firebirdsql:[//host[:port]/]<database>
>
> FB old format= jdbc:firebirdsql:[host[/port]:]<database>
> ==>
>
> Furthermore there is a samples folder with 2 Java programs.
> The <database> is the qualified name of the database, i.e.

includes the

> path.
>
> --
> John Zoetebier
> Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz