Introduction


Goat is essentially a universal JDBC Editor. Every major database today supports JDBC, and all of them have their own mechanism to view / modify data. The impetous behind creating goat was to have an unified interface to manage data using JDBC drivers. This gives users a single view of a heterogenous system of multiple databases thus simplifying the task of viewing and managing data irrespective of what database it comes from.

In addition to providing an easy to use interface to manage data, goat also has some useful features (query completion, smart query generation etc) which can help both database administrators as well as java developers to query and manage data effectively and quickly.