Migrations for Java

Question

I use both ruby on rails and Java. I really enjoy using migrations when I am working on a rails project. so I am wondering is there a migrations like tool for Java? If the

Answer 1

I ran across this post while researching the same question. I haven't come to any conclusions about the best tool or approach yet, but one tool that I've come across which hasn't been mentioned in other answers so far is dbdeploy. I'd be interested to read any comparisons of these tools.

Some other relevant resources: Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage's somewhat aged post on Evolutionary Database Design, and the book Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design by Sadalage and Scot Ambler.