RmiJdbc OverviewPlease email any bug reports, comments or suggestions to rmijdbc@objectweb.org What is RmiJdbc ?RmiJdbc is a type 3 JDBC driver that can network any local JDBC API.It is just a bridge, not a driver dedicated to a specific database: RmiJdbc works in conjunction with a local JDBC driver on the server side (often a type 1 or type 2 driver, that does not offer remote access facilities). RmiJdbc is made of a server-side component (daemon), and client classes that implement the java.sql.* interfaces. All JDBC classes (like Connection, ResultSet, etc...) are distributed as RMI objects, so that you can distribute as you like the access to any database supporting the JDBC API. Using RmiJdbc is a good idea...
RmiJdbc StoryRmiJdbc was born in September 1997, at the Inria research center located in Montbonnot, France. The product was financed by GIE Dyade, a joint venture between groupe Bull and Inria.Like many open-source initiatives, RmiJdbc was first a personal work; but its success quickly made it an "official" project. It was ther release under the GPL (Gnu Public License). At the end of 1999, I was thinking of hosting & managing RmiJdbc by myself: RmiJdbc had no more official existence at Inria (I had left a few months ago to create my own company), although it was still hosted on their servers. The ObjectWeb team proposed me to host RmiJdbc and make it one of their projects: I immediately accepted the proposal, and RmiJdbc joined ObjectWeb in June 2000. In may 2001, the RmiJdbc license moved from GPL to LGPL (Lesser Gnu Public License), a license we at ObjectWeb consider more open. Since the beginning of the story, some major contributions came from developers all over the world: for example, JDBC 3.0 is supported, RmiJdbc can be run on a single port, SSL can be used to secure RmiJdbc - and most of this is due to external contributors, as well as many bug fixes and enhancements. In the future, I will do my best to maintain RmiJdbc, and integrate later contributions as efficiently as I can. I hope you will find RmiJdbc friendly and useful, Pierre-Yves Gibello, RmiJdbc writer
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