Creating a database from Java Source Code

[Walther Mueller]

Hello,
I'm trying to develop a local database using derby/JavaDB.

I've created a txt-file where I have the DDL-Statements to create the database and
a txt-file where i initialize the tables with INSERT statements.

I think I've found a solution how to load these txt files from Java and execute them here on the board.

Execute file


My question is, what ist the best practise on to perform the file only once?

I've seen solutions were this is done in the built.xml but I'don't know exactly how to do it.
My naive solution would be to put a counter in the main method were my application is started and to change the
counter the first time the application is started and the database created.
I would check the counter with a if-clause to ensure the txt-files aren't executed twice.

Any others/betters ideas?
Cheers Walther

[Walther Mueller]

Okay,
the filed solution obviously does not work.
Still the question remains how to solve such a problem. Not from source code??
Regards

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Can you do a database query to see if a table created by the DDL exists? That would tell you if it had been run already.