I thank you for your attentive answers.
Best regards, Richard Tomkins

On 20-Nov-08, at 7:54 PM, Michael Ludwig wrote:

> Mr. Richard Tomkins schrieb am 20.11.2008 um 19:21:28 (-0500):
>> OS X 10.4.11
>> Firebird 2.1.1
>> Jaybird 2.1.6
>>
>> Why does JDBC require the Database URL to be the full path to
>> employee.fdb, rather than simply the database name?
>
> I don't think it does. The following works for me on Windows with
> Tomcat 6, Firebird 1.5 and Jaybird 2.1.6:
>
> In "C:\Programme\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\aliases.conf":
>
> test = C:\data\Firebird\test.fdb
>
> In "context.xml":
>
> <Resource name="jdbc/firebird/test"
> auth="Container"
> type="javax.sql.DataSource"
> driverClassName="org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver"
> username="bla" password="blub"
> url="jdbc:firebirdsql:127.0.0.1:test" />
>
> Or via DriverManager:
>
> Class.forName( "org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver");
> conn = DriverManager.getConnection(
> "jdbc:firebirdsql:127.0.0.1:test", properties);
>
>> I just found aliases.conf, what is @prefix@?
>
> Don't know. Maybe a left-over placeholder from failed installation-
> time
> template processing?
>
> Michael Ludwig
>
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