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Re: Why does v3 bundle dataprovider.jar ?

From: Anissa Lam <Anissa.Lam_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:43:02 -0800

Jerome Dochez wrote:
> John Baker wrote:
>>> It is used by the Admin Console, however, the sqlx.jar was not
>>> required so we did not include it. Is this causing a problem?
>>
>> Yes!
>> dataprovider.jar uses sqlx.jar for database applications.
>>
>> One problem is Visual Web applications fail to run on v3 without
>> changing the class-loader setting in sun-web.xml.
>> By excluding sqlx.jar causes a regression. Also, see Tim's message
>> from last August posted to this alias - search the archive of this
>> dev alias for "dataprovider"
>> The cause of the exception is the missing sqlx.jar library.
>>
>> Actually, dataprovider.jar is maintained by NetBeans visualweb. If
>> there are any bugs in dataprovider that need fixing then
>> is there a process to update dataprovider.jar?
>>
>> More importantly, there should be a review to decide which jars can
>> be included.
>>
> is the dataprovider.jar pom.xml file having the right dependency
> declaration ?
> who maintains the dataprovider.jar pom file ?
Woodstock team, supposedly.
Also want to point out that dataprovider.jar is part of the
glassfish-gui IPS package, so if GUI is not installed, the jar
doesn't exist. So, application cannot just assume that
dataprovider.jar is always there.

thanks
Anissa

>
> Jerome
>
>> John
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Ken Paulsen
>>>
>>> John Baker wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why is dataprovider.jar bundled with v3 ?
>>>>
>>>> This looks like the one from Visual Web.
>>>>
>>>> And if there's a good reason for including it, why was sqlx.jar not
>>>> included ?
>>>> The CachedRowSetDataProvider class uses the classes in sqlx.jar.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
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