During a keynote at the apache software foundation's ApacheCon in San Diego, Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun and XML specification co-editor, said Sun was incorporating the open-source Java DB into the Sun Java Enterprise System and providing additional support for the database with the NetBeans IDE (integrated development environment) 5.0 plug-in.

Java DB, the Sun-supported version of the Apache Derby Project Java database, will now be used as the application-embedded and Java developer database for Java Enterprise System Release 4. Java DB has been incorporated into Sun's Java System Portal Server 7.0 for data storage and is used as the development database in all Sun Java System Application Servers. Developers using NetBeans IDE 5.0 will also be able to build and deploy mobile, desktop, Web and enterprise applications that use Java DB. The Java DB plug-in is available from Sun's Autoupdate Center and can be found in the tools menu of NetBeans IDE 5.0.

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