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Re: Why does v3 bundle dataprovider.jar ?

From: Ludovic Champenois <Ludovic.Champenois_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:48:46 -0800

John Baker wrote:
> 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
So this would mean NetBeans 6.5 should not bundle Visual Web Pack,
correct?, if there is not support...
I was told there is support...
Ludo