Programmatically setting derby.system.home

Question

Need to move the database and log files of JavaDB (derby) db files into deployment directories. The database is working in the application startup directory as JavaDB creates a

Answer 1

The documentation (Derby developers guide: Setting Derby properties) suggests something like:

Properties p = System.getProperties();
p.setProperty("derby.system.home", "C:\databases\sample");

I've also seen

/* setting an attribute in a Properties object */
Properties myProps = new Properties();
myProps.put("create", "true");
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:derby:sampleDB", myProps);