[ajug-members] DB dump / load tool

[Donald Bleyl]

You are talking about a Extraction-Transform-Loading tool, perhaps.
Here's some links:

http://octopus.objectweb.org/
http://cloveretl.berlios.de/
http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/open-source-etl/view

What would be ideal is a tool that provided a workflow spine and perhaps 
some generalization
and configurability in java that called database specific bulk loading 
tools, like SQL Server bcp/Bulk Insert
or Oracle Sql*Loader.  And only relied on JDBC if there wasn't such a tool.  
Something akin to Ant.