How to use Oracle SQLdeveloper with HSQL / Hypersonic DB's JDBC driver

Question

I'd like to use Oracle's SQLdeveloper to visualize my HSQLDB tables. An instruction on how to use it with MySQL can be found on https://web.archive.org/web/1/http://blogs.techrepublic%2ecom%2ecom/programming-and-development/?p=564 ... and I know that Oracle points to a location where to download all JDBC drivers.

With MySQL this worked, however, including the JAR file from HSQLDB (here: hsqldb-1.8.0.10.jar) did not make a new tab show up (as is the case with MySQL).

Is there a way to "convince" SQLdeveloper working with HSQLDB and JDBC? FYI, I am using Squirrel too but it's not as comfortable to work with compared to SQLdeveloper.

Solution

I was looking for the same thing, then found this:

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=4241526&#4241526

So basically Oracle doesn't support it, and you can't add a new TAB on your own, even if you have the JDBC driver.

You can try other tool like ExecuteQuery (executequery dot org)