Once an archive containing one or more Derby databases has been created it can be placed in the classpath/modulepath. This allows access to a database from within an application without the application's knowing the path of the archive.
When jar or zip files are part of the classpath/modulepath, you specify the classpath subsubprotocol instead of the jar subsubprotocol to connect to them.
To access a database in a zip or jar file in the classpath/modulepath:
For example:
jdbc:derby:classpath:products/boiledfood