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Re: Unable to create Oracle datasource on admin gui

From: Richard Kolb <rjdkolb_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:07:52 +0200

:-)

No problem and good night.

regards
Richard


2009/10/28 Judy Tang <Judy.J.Tang_at_sun.com>

> Good point Richard. Will let Anissa sleep now and think about it tomorrow
> :-)
>
> Thanks !
> Judy
>
>
> Richard Kolb wrote:
>
> Hi Judy
>
> I think we have a more complex problem. The driver may need to be in
> lib/ext to make Oracle Toplink work.
> Personally I don't use toplink so I can't confirm this.
>
> Maybe a nice to have (and a quick one) is to add a README.TXT file in
> lib/ext and say what should and what should not be included there.
>
> regards
> Richard
>
>
> 2009/10/28 Judy Tang <Judy.J.Tang_at_sun.com>
>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> Thanks for continue testing and report issues. It helps us to know where to improve.
>>
>> Checked with Yifeng she confirmed if put the driver in domain1/lib, it is working fine. Thanks Yifeng :-)
>>
>> Thanks Anissa, you are so fast, even looked into online Help and found an issue there.
>>
>> I have a suggestion and see if it is possible to add code to check under domain1/lib, if driver is not
>> there, may be pop up an error message to suggest user to put the driver in the right place ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Judy
>>
>> Anissa Lam wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Richard,
>> I have looked at this and realized what is the problem.
>> The location where you install the oracle driver is the issue. It should
>> be placed under glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1/lib (Note: NOT
>> lib/ext).
>> Once you put it there, and restart the driver, connector runtime is able
>> to detect that and console presented the correct information.
>> Attached is the list of property shown when i select
>> "javax.sql.DataSource" as the resource type.
>>
>> I checked the current Online Help for creating the pool, the help did
>> mention that lib/ext being an alternate location which is incorrect.
>>
>> * # Make the driver accessible to the common class loader.
>> 1. Copy the JAR and ZIP files of the driver into the domain-dir/lib
>> directory; or copy the class files into the domain-dir/lib/ext directory.
>> 2. Restart the domain.
>>
>> *I will contact the doc team and ensure that this will be corrected.
>> Again, thanks for drawing this to our attention and takeing the time to
>> file the bug.
>>
>> thanks
>> Anissa.
>>
>> Richard Kolb wrote:
>>
>> Hi Anissa
>>
>> No problem, just glad I saw it.
>> Will copy the GF 2.1 setting.
>>
>>
>> regards
>> Richard
>>
>> 2009/10/28 Anissa Lam <Anissa.Lam_at_sun.com>
>>
>>
>> Hi Richard,
>> I will look into this. In the meantime, maybe you can work around the
>> problem by adding rows in the Property table and fill in the Property name
>> and value pair instead of relying GUI to provide the property list for you
>> to fill in the value.
>>
>> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>>
>> thanks
>> Anissa.
>>
>>
>> Richard Kolb wrote:
>>
>>
>> Can someone please confirm this (it's a bad one) :
>> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10626
>>
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