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Re: Why does v3 bundle dataprovider.jar ?

From: John Baker <John.Baker_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:50:41 -0800

Ludovic Champenois wrote:
> 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...

I'll reconfirm

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