I found all my answers in the Derby 10.0 Developer's Guild.
At 09:57 AM 5/31/2005, you wrote:
>I am using Class.forName("org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver") to load
>one embedded derby in my application. It works successfully. I want to be
>able to control the path for the database instances, though. It seems to
>always default to the present working directory. Each of my databases are
>contained in a directory specific to their parent sub-application. So, I
>would like something like this (notice virtual_host_1 and virual_host_2
>directories in data path):
>
>database data directory
>-----------------------------------------------
>application_1 virtual_host_1/application_1/
>application_2 virtual_host_1/application_2/
>application_3 virtual_host_2/application_3/
>
>Is there a way to specify this for each database instance without having to
>load separate EmbeddedDriver`s in each sub-directory?
>
>I'm trying to make this question short. If you need more from me to
>clarify, please request.
>
>-mark