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Re: Why does v3 bundle dataprovider.jar ?

From: John Baker <John.Baker_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:46:25 -0800

Anissa Lam wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK, there is no one remaining from the Woodstock team available to
maintain the jar

John

>
> 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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