David W. Van Couvering wrote: > I hope I'm not stepping on a landmine here, but does anyone else who > thinks it would be a good thing to remove the need for the DB2 JDBC > driver for our builds and tests? It's fine if it's an optional part, > like support for JDK 1.6, but it doesn't seem right that it's required > now that we have our own JDBC driver... Dumb question, in what way is it required? I thought it was alredy optional. As far as I know it is not needed for building. As far as I know the derbynet tests will be skipped if it is not in the class path. I thought that this had been the case since Derby was open sourced. Dan.