Is it possible to use derby from apache in Eclipse now that they stopped developing the derby plugin for Eclipse?

Apache Derby is just like other databases that provide interface through JDBC. You don’t need a specific plugin to connect with Derby. Just use the usual JDBC routines.

Basic steps:

  1. If you want to use the latest Derby version, first you need to download it from here
  2. You need to include the jar in your classpath.
  3. You just need to make connections and perform queries using JDBC, as better explained at the Oracle JDBC Tutorial.

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