Firebird News

Discussion was on kde.devel.calligra there is a need for Firebird driver implementation in Kexi in the future.

Any contributors for the new kexi driver ?

You can try to use the Firebird Database within LibreOffice which doesn’t need Java. This feature is still marked as experimental. Firebird Databases are available since LibreOffice 4.2. (see the release notes for further information

To turn the experimental features on, you have to go to the Settings –> LibreOffice –> Advanced –> “Enable experimental features” (see screenshot bellow)
Then you can uncheck the Java from the same Dialog.

There are few components written in Java if you use them :The Wizards, Report Builder, and Report Designer sub-components are written in Java. Full list of Java dependencies here.

Original question and source is on ask.libreoffice.org

To make Firebird Embedded default database in the new database dialog open Expert Configuration and change this key
org.openoffice.Office.DataAccess/EmbeddedDatabases/DefaultEmbeddedDatabase/Value to sdbc:embedded:firebird

Mark Rotteveel wrote on Firebird-java group:
I just published a snapshot of Jaybird 2.2.5 for testing.

Chris Krycho wrote: Setting up IntelliJ IDEA’s built-in database tools to work with FirebirdSQL requires a particular setup configuration, which I’m documenting here for public consumption.

From Amazon AWS console you can launch a ec2 free instance , in my case microinstance (if you don’t want to pay)

Push the button Launch instance AWS Marketplace : type Debian
and select the first one from the list (64 bits version)

Currently selected: t1.micro (up to 2 ECUs, 1 vCPUs, 0.613 GiB memory, EBS only)

Review configuration and push the launch button
with your keyfile generated for example firebird.pem you can now connect to it (initial ssh user is admin for Debian and ubuntu for Ubuntu instance)

ssh -i firebird.pem admin@ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

after that you can continue to setup firebird on it with the new sudo powers
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firebird2.5

and then you can connect securely to it using a ssh tunnel (putty can be used on windows to create the tunnel)
http://mapopa.blogspot.ro/2010/11/securing-firebird-using-ssh-tunnel.html

firebird port is secure by default and is closed to outside world on debian/ubuntu it listens to localhost (127.0.0.1) only

I have updated the Building guide for Firebird Client on Android.
Now you can download and include in your native C/C++/Delphi/Pascal projects libfbclient.so.3.0.0
You can download from here:
http://mariuz.android-dev.ro/android_fbclient/libfbclient.so.3.0.0

Rodmap is updated with the following schedule:
Alpha 2 has been released in January 2014;
The next testing release (Beta 1) is expected in Q2 2014.
Unstable v3.0 builds can be downloaded from the snapshot area.
Use the “Track Details” icon to discover the list of tasks currently scheduled for v3.0 Beta 1.

From the Dashboard Beta Release: 31 of 63 issues resolved

New Flamerobin snapshot uploaded to Debian unstable with the following changes

  * use xz compression for snapshot source tarball
  * New upstream snapshot
     add support for more Firebird 3.0 reserved keywords
     ask before deleting unsaved changes to SQL files
  * switch to WxWidgets 3.0 (Closes: #742092)
    Thanks to Olly Betts for the patch and the testing