I can’t live without it: Henplus. It’s a great commandline interface to JDBC-Databases.

To install Henplus on Mac OS X you need to follow these few steps:

• Install Fink
• Enter : sudo fink install readline-java in the Terminal
• Modify the build.xml, this modifies the classpath to the location of the libreadline-java.jar:

<target name="compile" depends="prepare,Version.java" description="compile it">
 <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${classes}" classpath="/sw/share/java/readline-java/libreadline-java.jar"/>
</target>

• Modify the bin/henplus-Skript and changes the Library-Paths to the Fink-Installation

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/sw/lib:$THISDIR/../lib:/usr/lib/jni:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/sw/share/java/readline-java/libreadline-java.jar   

• Create a Symbolic Link to /sw/lib/libJavaReadline.jnilb in the Directory ~/Library/Java/Extensions
• Run sudo ant install
• Install all your needed JDBC-Drivers in /usr/share/henplus
• That’s it