Appendix A. Derby API

Derby provides Javadoc HTML files of API classes and interfaces in the javadoc subdirectory. This appendix provides a brief overview of the API. Derby does not provide the Javadoc for the java.sql packages, the main API for working with Derby, because it is included in the JDBC API. For information about Derby's implementation of JDBC, see "JDBC Reference".

This document divides the API classes and interfaces into three categories:

• Stand-Alone Tools and Utilities

  These are Java classes that stand on their own and are invoked in a command window.

• JDBC Implementation Classes

  You do not invoke these on the command-line, only within a specified context within another application. These classes are standard JDBC APIs.