Ok, thanks a lot,
Actually I just realised that this is stupid because the application
might be running under a machine with no FB installed but it is in
another machine in the network, non sense.

Cheers

Roman Rokytskyy escreveu:

>>Is there any way to find out if there is Firebird installed before tying
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>>I want when starting my application to check if it is installed, if it
>>is right, if it is not I want to warn the user about the needed
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>There is no way to do this in pure Java (at least I do not know of any)
>except to connect to the server and check for an error. In C/C++ under
>Windows you can check for a window handle, but that is question for a
>Firebird-Support list.
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