1. Overview

Whitebear is a tool for database, written by java.
It aims to help the developer of database application.
It currently supports MySQL and Oracle.


2. Running Whitebear database tool.

2.1 Download and Install a Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)

- Download and Install a Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
  version 1.4 or later from http://java.sun.com/j2se/

- Set an environment variable JAVA_HOME to the pathname of the directory
  into which you installed the J2SE release.

2.2 Download and Install the Whitebear Binary Distribution

- Download a distribution of Whitebear from http://whitebear.kldp.net

- Unpack the distribution into a convenient location 
  (conventionally named "whitebear"). The symbolic name "$WHITEBEAR_HOME" 
  is used to refer to the full pathname of the release directory.

2.3 Start Up Whitebear

- Whitebear can be started by executing the following commands:

	$WHITEBEAR_HOME\startup.bat


3. Execute Query

- To execute query, press F5 on query panel.

