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.