after reading the H2 documentation, I wrote this simple application to create a H2 database in a local directory:
public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException { String path = "C:/Temp/H2/"; File fpath = new File(path); fpath.mkdirs(); FileUtils.recursiveDelete(fpath); String dbName = "tata"; String connection = "jdbc:h2:file:" + path + dbName; Server server = Server.createTcpServer(connection); server.start(); server.stop(); } This program runs fine, but when I check in the target directory, the database is not there... (i am using release 1.3.161)