Introduction

Liquorice is a Netbeans plugin for integrating Liquibase into the Netbeans IDE and platform applications.

The current, 0.2 version implements rudimentary support and concentrates on the most needed functionality around Liquibase.

Features:

• Database connections stored in the Database Explorer plugin, so the developer doesn't have to separately maintain the registry of connections which are used regularly. Database driver registration is also done with the Database Explorer (if the JDBC driver of your RDBMS doesn't ship with Netbeans).
• Executing a Liquibase changeset by simply selecting it in the File or Project explorer windows and call the execution from a context menu action. The database connection can be selected during the execution. This way, you can quickly execute and re-execute the database changes when you are actively working on the database structure of an application.
• A formatted log is displayed in the Output Window about the execution of the changeset, so the developer is properly informed if the changeset execution has failed. Also, one can track the execution of changeset files which contain a lot of changesets or changesets which run for a long time (e.g.: adding an index to a big table)
• Custom icon for the Liquibase changeset files, so they can better distinguished from the ordinary files.

This is dependent on the following plugins:

• Database Explorer (may ship with your Netbeans IDE edition)
• Liquibase (library wrapped as a module, download from the Plugin Portal)

What's new in this version