My experience with Jelly & recommendation on lightweight IMDB

I just read Hani’s experiences with axiondb - The BileBlog. It echoes my sentiments with common’s projects, specially the maven enabled ones, minus his colorful language of course.

I have been trying to get Jelly working for me. I realized that the jar provided is not complete and it needs Maven. I then proceeded to download Maven and incidentally also got it working with Ant.

I thought my troubles were over! Alas, I discovered a quite sometime later that one of the jars it needs to compile is not present, thereby preventing any build from happening! I tried it with both Maven and Ant, with same results.

The dependency list seems to be broken for over a month. I am surprised that people haven’t fixed it yet. Is anyone working anymore on Jelly?

Much as I like to use Jelly (I still haven’t been able to get it working) the stupid idea to download huge number of jars which I may or may not need is something that puts me off. I can accept if they packaged it in a big fat zip file but not this way. Maven concept is good theoritically, practically its a pain.

Yeah, I know its free but so is Tomcat. And look how simple it is to install Tomcat.

At the end I have to admit, it was effort to not use colorful language against this product.

My advice to Hani: Use Hypersonic SQL. Its a pleasure to use. I am using for small projects and prototypes for around 3 years now without much of an issue. I am still amazed at how something as beautiful can be built with so little code.