Have you found
Start -> Programs -> InterBase InterClient -> InterServer ? The InterServer
is another process (can run as a service) which allows communication (I
think) between the Java code and the InterBase / Firebird server.

After that, the InterClient docs guide you through testing the connection.

Regards,
Thomas.
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At 15:41 27/11/2001 -0500, Mike Arace wrote:

>Hiya,
>
>I've been trying to get the JDBC driver for interbase working for my JSPs
>and have been running into constant problems. Its been difficult to find
>concrete information about how to set up the server correctly to work with
>InterClient. I read somewhere that there is some intermediate "InterServer"
>program in addition to the regular interbase server install which must be
>used to connect in java, but have found little else to steer me in the right
>direction.
>
>I'm running on Win2k at the moment, using interbase 6 open-source
>(downloaded from borland directly) and Tomcat 4.0 and InterClient 2.0 (I
>believe, its also the one from the borland site). If someone could give me
>intructions on installing everything from scratch that would be fine, since
>I have nothing of value in the database. Ideally, the server would start as
>a service and would be ready to go right away.
>
>I tried both of the procedures outlined for interclient on the kpi logistics
>and ib firebird sites, including the "datasource" method and the older
>connection method which takes the driver string. The former gives me a
>serverSocketTimeout exception, and the latter hangs indefinitely before
>returning a "can't display page" error.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>Mike
>
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