> It's been a little frustrating to find manuals or documentation for
> everything.

By everything I mean mostly with firebird documentation...not Jaybird.
I don't understand why firebird has two websites - navigation is also
a little sloppy.

--- In Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com, "judlian23" <jtb3f@...> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to use FBManager to specify the page size?
>
> Also, is there a place I can find an API for FBManager? I've looked
> in a lot of places including the jaybird wiki site, and I can't find
much.
>
> It's been a little frustrating to find manuals or documentation for
> everything.
>
> Please help.
>
> -Julian
>
> --- In Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com, Roman Rokytskyy <roman@> wrote:
> >
> > > The install was fairly easy as you said. I'm not done, however. I
> > > was trying to figure out how to connect to the database, so I
> > > specified a path to the database figuring that if it didn't exist
> > > firebird would create the database file for me like some of the
other
> > > embedded apps I've used. This did not seem to be the case.
> >
> > Correct.
> >
> > > QUESTION:
> > > Do I have to go through isql to create a database? Is there there a
> > > more transparent/embedded method?
> >
> > Yes, there is class org.firebirdsql.management.FBManager, you can
> create
> > database with it.
> >
> > FBManager manager = new FBManager("EMBEDDED");
> > manager.start();
> > manager.createDatabase("/path/to/your/db.fdb", null, null);
> > manager.stop();
> >
> > The last two parameters are user name and password. If FBManager has
> > problems with nulls there, put some dummy values (and report a bug
> about
> > NullPointerException into the tracker).
> >
> > As to the manageability. Jaybird provides classes for most database
> > management operations, including creating and dropping databases,
> backup
> > and restore, property management (e.g. set read only, run sweep,
etc.).
> > Usually these operations require more application-related
knowledge and
> > cannot be handled automatically for all cases, that is why we provide
> > methods to do operations, but not do them ourselves.
> >
> > Roman
> >
>