User Guide documentation on the limitations of small-device support is stale

• Key: DERBY-3983
• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Kim Haase
• Reporter: Rick Hillegas
• Component/s: Documentation
• Affects Version/s: 10.5.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 10.5.1.1

Description

The limitations of Derby's feature set on small devices is sketched in the Reference Guide in a section titled "JDBC Package for Connected Device Configuration/Foundation Profile (JSR169)". This section should be expanded to include other unsupported features identified in DERBY-3966:

1) Lack of XML datatype (can be remedied if the small device platform can be supplemented with some extra, freely available jar files)

2) Non-blocking io

3) Java EE resource manager support, including distributed transactions

4) Principal-based security

5) LDAP-based authentication

6) SSL/TLS encryption

7) Replication