--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "mailmur" <mailmur@y...> wrote:

>
> I can live with the fact that FB1.5 engine must be shutdown during FB2
> testings. But removing fb1 might be too much. I dont have a spare
> machine at home so must use the same Win2k box.
>
> I want to test my unicode(UTF-8) testcase in FB2 version.
> http://koti.mbnet.fi/akini/ib/
>
> 2) Can I use current jdbc driver with FB2
> If I cannot use jdbc or .net driver then my FB2 testcase can wait for
> another time. I dont have any other tools to connect fb database.

I used the zip download
(http://www.firebirdsql.org/download/prerelease/win32/Firebird-2.0.0.10528-0_win32.zip)
and simply unzipped it into a new directory.

Then I changed firebird.conf to select a different port to listen to
(using RemoteServicePort = 3051). When running FB2.0 I shut down the
1.5 service before and I start FB 2.0 using fbserver -a.

I am using the same JDBC driver for both versions.

But apparently FB 2.0 will corrupt your databases after some time. So
don't put anything in it that you want to keep.

Thomas