The new tutorial for Derby, created by Jean Anderson, can be found at http://db.apache.org/derby/papers/DerbyTut/index.html ">http://db.apache.org/derby/papers/DerbyTut/index.html . This tutorial will be useful for Glassfish developers as it gives an overview of using Derby in a Network and Embedded mode and also provides info on how to use the ij tool for executing simple SQL queries.