Bug#559867: RFP: squirrel-sql -- graphical universal SQL client
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : squirrel-sql
Version : 3.0.3
Upstream Author : squirrel-sql-develop@lists.sourceforge.net
* URL : http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL, LGPL (according to SF)
Programming Lang: Java™
Description : graphical universal SQL client
SQuirreL SQL Client is a graphical SQL client written in Java that will
allow you to view the structure of a JDBC compliant database, browse the
data in tables, issue SQL commands etc.
SQuirreL SQL Client is a graphical Java program that will allow you to
view the structure of a JDBC compliant database, browse the data in
tables, issue SQL commands etc, see Introduction. The minimum version of
Java supported is 1.6.x as of SQuirreL version 3.0. See the Old Versions
page for versions of SQuirreL that will work with older versions of
Java.
SQuirreL's functionality can be extended through the use of plugins.
A short introduction can be found here. To see the change history
(including changes not yet released) click here. For a more detailed
introduction see the English or German of our paper on SQuirreL. Susan
Cline graciously took the time to document the steps she followed to
setup an Apache Derby database from scratch and use the SQuirreL SQL
Client to explore it. Quite some time ago Kulvir Singh Bhogal wrote a
great tutorial on SQuirreL and published it at the IBM developerWorks
site. He has kindly allowed us to mirror it locally. The tutorial is not
really up to date but especially for doing the first steps it is still
of help. SQuirrel was originally released under the GNU General Public
License. Since version 1.1beta2 it has been released under the GNU
Lesser General Public License.
I was made aware that “most” of our colleagues (Java™ developers, most
of them) use this as graphical SQL tool. I personally don’t know what
to do with such things, but I’d like to be able to offer to centrally
install this software on our workstations using the package management
system, which is why I file this RFP.
I don’t know how well this can be integrated into usual Debian Pak-
kaging systems though… they use that “drop the JAR into your $HOME
and run it” method many Java™ applications seem to be fond of…
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