Penuel: A Free Database Browser Application

I am pleased to announce the release of my free software application Penuel. Penuel is a function-oriented, no-frills browser program for relational databases that are JDBC-compliant. Penuel is a 100% pure Java application developed
using the Swing and JDBC APIs.

Highlights

• use with any relational database system that provides a JDBC driver
• define database connection profiles and re-use for express login
• view connection properties and database meta-data
• customize database access by setting properties for JDBC Connection and Statement objects
• visually browse database objects exposed by the JDBC API
• view database objects in object browser in tree structure
• customize object lists in the object browser filtering by catalog, schema and object name and more.
• view object properties with a mouse-right click
• execute SQL commands to retrieve or update information in a database.
• execute batches of SQL commands interactively.
• drag and drop object names from object browser into SQL command pane
• drag and drop driver-specific SQL keywords into SQL command pane
• save your SQL statements to files for subsequent re-use.
• view result sets in table or a selected row as a form
• view meta-data for any column in current resultset.
• print result sets in current size or fit-to-page
• centralized maintenance of application settings and preference information
• import and export application settings (transfer settings easily between computers)
• switch look and feel seamlessly between Ocean, Motif and Windows
• ready reference for public final static int values in java.sql interfaces and classes (needed for interpreting meta-data)
• view property information for currently executing JVM
• meaningful context sensitive help
• an update checker that notifies you if a newer version of Penuel has been released.
• Tested with DB2, Oracle, Sybase and HSQLDB.
• Requires JRE 1.5

Documentation

• The user guide provides detailed information on all of the application features.
• The installation guide is in the root directory of the Penuel distribution file.
• The Penuel blog at xgeorge.blogspot.com provides uptodate information on new releases

Download

Penuel can be downloaded from www.xgeorge.com. The user guide is also available on-line
at this site.

Feedback.

If you would like to give me feedback (or a better day job), please send email to

NOgxSPAM_at_xgeorge.com

with Penuel as the subject.

Thank you.

George Xavier Received on Fri Jan 13 2006 - 00:57:07 CET