What Are the Cloudscape Tools and Utilities?
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Overview

Cloudscape is a DBMS, a database management system, accessed by applications through the JDBC API.

Included with the product you purchased are some standalone Java tools and utilities that make it easier to use Cloudscape and to develop Cloudscape applications.

These tools and utilities include:

  • ij

    ij is Cloudscape's interactive JDBC scripting tool. It is a simple utility for running scripts against a Cloudscape database. You can also use it interactively to run ad hoc queries. ij provides several commands for ease in accessing a variety of JDBC features.

    ij can be used in an embedded or a client/server environment.

  • Cloudview

    Cloudview is a graphical user interface for creating and managing Cloudscape databases. It can be used in an embedded or a client/server environment.

  • The import and export utilities

    These server-side utilities allow you to import data directly from files into tables and to export data from tables into files. (You can use the utilities in a client/server environment.)

  • Database class utilities

    These utilities allow you to store application logic in a database and to boot an application using the stored classes.

  • sysinfo

    sysinfo provides information about your version of Cloudscape and your environment.

JDK and Class Path for Cloudscape Tools

ij and Cloudview are tools that can be used in an embedded or a client/server environment. The import and export utilities and database class utilities are database-side utilities, which means that they run in the same JVM as Cloudscape, although the import and export utilities can also be used in a client/server environment. sysinfo can be run in either environment.

JDK

  • ij is a JDK 1.1 or higher application.
  • Cloudview is a JDK 1.2 or higher application.

    It is possible to use Cloudview with a 1.1 JDK (1.1.6 or higher). To do so, you must download an extra library (swingall.jar) from the Cloudscape Web site and place it in the class path. You can download this library from http://www.cloudscape.com/support/Downloads/.

    For complete information about Cloudview and platforms, see the release notes.

  • The import and export utilities are a JDK 1.1 or higher application.
  • The class storing and loading utilities are a JDK 1.1.1 or higher application.
  • sysinfo is a JDK 1.1.1 or higher application.

Class Path

ij and Cloudview use the libraries in tools.jar. To use these tools, you need to add tools.jar to your class path. The import and export utilities and the database class utilities are in the primary Cloudscape library for your product, cloudscape.jar or cloudsync.jar. sysinfo is in both tools.jar and the main Cloudscape library.