In this section, we'll build a Phonebook application and store phone numbers. We'll use the Apache Derby database for persistence. Derby can be downloaded from http://db.apache.org/derby/.
You can use better built-in databases such as H2. It has more features and is less restrictive than Derby; however, we're using Derby for simplicity.
The following are the steps to run Derby:
Download the binary media file and extract the media to a preferred location. We'll refer to it as
DERBY_HOMEin the next steps.On a Windows machine, go to
DERBY_HOME\binand execute thestartNetworkServer.batfile.It will launch a command prompt and print a message to the console that the database server has started, such as started and ready to accept connections on port 1527.
We will create a Java project to test the Phonebook application. Follow the ensuing steps to build the application: