Question

Is it possible to start the HSQLDB Database manager automatically somehow when I´m working in my local dev environment? I´m using the in-memory DB at the moment. I found some code to start the database manager when running test cases. Can this be used when starting a web application as well?

org.hsqldb.util.DatabaseManagerSwing.main(new String[] { "--url","jdbc:hsqldb:mem:moviecollection", "--noexit" });

Answer 1

I am assuming you are using Spring because you tagged your question with it. You could create a Spring bean that has a method that is annotated with the JSR-250 annotation @PostConstruct. Method annotated with @PostConstruct indicates that the method should be invoked after the bean has been created and dependency injection is complete.

@Component
public class Initializer
{
    @PostConstruct
    public void init()
    {
       org.hsqldb.util.DatabaseManagerSwing.main(new String[] { "--url","jdbc:hsqldb:mem:moviecollection", "--noexit" }); 
    }
}

If you would start the DatabaseManagerSwing with a web application it would get created and displayed on the server your WAR is running on which you probably don’t want to do.