Use Apache Derby 10.2 alpha to check out new JDBC 4.0 features

I read a nice blog by Brian Oxley about Apache Derby and its new JDBC 4.0 functionality (currently in alpha) today ("it just worked!"), and I realized that perhaps it was not well known that we are putting JDBC 4.0 functionality into Apache Derby right now. So if you’re curious about some of the features in JDBC 4, you can play around with an early access version of the implementation in Apache Derby. Standard caveats apply around both the spec and the code potentially changing until they both become generally available.