jDBA is database administration tool being written in Java. It will be able to manage multiple instances from a variety of DBMS such as Oracle, Informix, Sybase, MySQL, and others. Although jDBA is in the very early stages of development, it can already be used to connect to Oracle instances; visually represent the instance's tables and columns; view and edit data; and has other functionality still being developed. (Oracle, being the bad-ass dbms that it is, gets highest priority.) 
 
 

CONTEXT 

jDBA is being developed with the aspiration of providing a useful tool for database administration multiple platforms. We work in a heterogenous OS environment, primarily dealing with Linux and WinNT, and we needed/wanted a convenient GUI application that could be used on most of the development machines. We were inspired by Borland's Database Explorer, but felt that the multiple layers necessary to connect to a database from a Windows machine were cumbersome, slow, and too propreitary (e.g ODBC, BDE, etc.). We found that JDBC was relatively fast, thin, and well-documented. 

jDBA is written for Java 2, although a retrofit for 1.1.x is being discussed. Oh yeah, here are some screenshots : screen 1, screen 2 , and screen 3;.
 
 

CODE 

Download the most recent development source.
(DISCLAIMER: This app is not yet reliably useful. There are some design flaws, gui inefficiencies, and some outright sophmoric code. This is, and will continue to be, evolving away at a rapid pace.)

More to come.... 

Changelog (soon)