Firebird Embedded Windows x86-64 for Jaybird

This is an experimental library to provide Firebird embedded on the classpath of Java applications. It requires Jaybird 5.0.0 or higher.

For now, we only provide releases for Windows x86-64, but we will try to release a variant for Linux x86-64 in the future.

NOTE: This feature is experimental in Jaybird 5, and may be removed or radically changed in future versions.

Usage

To use this bundle, you need to depend on this library, your preferred Jaybird 5 (or higher) version, and the JNA version required by that version of Jaybird:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.firebirdsql.embedded</groupId>
        <artifactId>jaybird-firebird-embedded-win32-x86-64</artifactId>
        <version>4.0.4.0-alpha-1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
        <artifactId>jaybird</artifactId>
        <version>5.0.3.java11</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
        <artifactId>jna</artifactId>
        <version>5.12.1</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

You can now use the embedded protocol without having Firebird embedded installed:

public class Example {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try (Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(
                "jdbc:firebirdsql:embedded:mydb.fdb", "user", "")) {
            // use connection
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Build information

Version

The version has 4 components. The first three are the Firebird version that sourced the libraries (eg 4.0.2). The last part is a 'build' identifier, which should usually be 0. The 'build' identifier may be incremented for patches or new platforms added.

Suffixes like -alpha-1 apply to this library, and not Firebird itself. It intends to reflect that the library is still experimental.