I've searched long and hard, but nobody seems to have had the same
consistent difficulty with creating a simple stored procedure with
JayBird/Firebird. I feel like I'm beating my head against a wall..

I have tried this statement (and many variations) using all of the
following:

ISQL
Squirrel 2.1 final
MyEclipse IDE Database Explorer
Direct JDBC access from my Java code

I get consistent failures from all..

------- ISQL session...

-- attempt 1

SQL> CREATE PROCEDURE SELTEST AS BEGIN SELECT * FROM COMPUTER; END
CON> ;
Statement failed, SQLCODE = -104

Dynamic SQL Error
-SQL error code = -104
-Token unknown - line 1, char 57
-;

-- attempt 2

SQL> CREATE PROCEDURE SELTEST AS BEGIN SELECT * FROM COMPUTER END;
Statement failed, SQLCODE = -104

Dynamic SQL Error
-SQL error code = -104
-Token unknown - line 1, char 58
-END

-- attempt 3

SQL> SET TERM ^^;
SQL> CREATE PROCEDURE SELTEST AS BEGIN SELECT * FROM COMPUTER;
CON> END ^^
Statement failed, SQLCODE = -104

Dynamic SQL Error
-SQL error code = -104
-Token unknown - line 1, char 57
-;
SQL>
SQL> SET TERM ;^^
SQL>

-------------- end isql

------------- My own code (snippet)..

Statement sqlStatement = sqlConn.createStatement();
String sqlStr = " CREATE PROCEDURE SELTEST AS BEGIN SELECT * FROM
COMPUTER; END ";
System.out.println(sqlStr);
sqlStatement.executeUpdate(sqlStr);

Result..

CREATE PROCEDURE SELTEST AS BEGIN SELECT * FROM COMPUTER; END
SQL error: sql Failed
GDS Exception. 335544569. Dynamic SQL Error
SQL error code = -104
Token unknown - line 1, char 58
;
Error Code: 335544569
SQL State: HY000

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Squirrel and MyEclipse produce very similar results.