On Apr 19, 2007, at 2:08 AM, Daniel Alheiros wrote:
Sorry for the ignorance, but I'm a but confused about this jar
selection...
Does it allows me to have more than one driver version for the same
vendor
(like having a Oracle 8i and Oracle 10g drivers at same time being
used by
different datasources)?
yes.
If not, what is the point in selecting the JAR in
this form?
Does the Geronimo's classloaders allows me to have "one" class in
different
versions available? I don't believe it could be managed safely, so
I believe
it doesn't.
not in the same classloader, but just as with the datasources this
works fine with the "same" class in different classloaders.
I like the idea of having a list containing eventual implementation
options,
because it is much easier to take a look in an existing environment
and be
aware of what drivers are available and avoid eventual
incompatibilities
changing drivers (like Oracle 8i and Oracle 9 or 10g drivers)
Collecting the jars needed for a particular driver to work can't be
done in any automatic uniform way at the moment AFAIK. So we either
have to show all the jars and let the user pick or require that some
person figure out and install the metadata for each driver. My
experience is that a metadata based solution will never be kept up to
date.
I thought that a search feature that would find all the jars
containing a particular class, given the fully qualified class name,
was a reasonable compromise between having to look through all the
jars with no clue about whats inside and hiding most of the jars
based on what is sure to be out of date information.
thanks
david jencks
Regards
On 18/4/07 19:28, "Aaron Mulder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Just remember that one of the main reasons that there's an awkward
display of tons of JARs now is that the DB2 driver (did? does?)
require 3 JARs to all be added in order to function, and only one of
those has any kind of driver implementation AFAIK. (I think one is a
license and not sure about the other.) I think there is at least one
other multi-JAR driver out there too.
I think it would be nice if we showed a single combo box, perhaps
with
just the driver JARs listed, and then had a checkbox where if you
clicked it then the page would adjust to let you select multiple
arbitrary JARs instead.
Thanks,
Aaron
On 4/18/07, Daniel Alheiros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well anyway, if you are going to filter by the class, you still
have the
"problem" of not seeing all its dependent classes/jars... But I
really think
it shouldn't be a big deal in this context.
Talking about the performance hit related to this kind of
filtering, it can
be avoided if you keep track of those classes since you install
it into your
repository folder. What do you think about it?
This initial idea in terms of filtering aims to make the
information shown
really useful to the console user (system operators and
developers)...
And instead of just filtering the java.sql.Driver
implementations, it could
be instructed to look at XAResource implementations as well...
Regards
On 18/4/07 16:17, "David Jencks (JIRA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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David Jencks commented on GERONIMO-3106:
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What we have now is surely annoying and hard to use, but there
are at least
2
problems with the proposal:
1- it wouldn't show a jar that had an xa-only datasource
implementation with
no Driver implementation
2- it wouldn't show utility jars that might be needed by some
drivers
So, an option to filter the jars might be useful but it would
certainly slow
down the ui and you'd need to be able to turn it off.
Perhaps a "find the jars containing this class" button would be
useful?
When you are in the Create Database Pool wizard the jar driver
list could
show only jars containing Driver implementations
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Key: GERONIMO-3106
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/
GERONIMO-3106
Project: Geronimo
Issue Type: Improvement
Security Level: public(Regular issues)
Components: console
Affects Versions: 2.0-M3
Reporter: Daniel Alheiros
Priority: Minor
The combo actually shows all the repository jars but could be
organized in
an
easier way if are shown only the repository jars containing
java.sql.Driver
implementations.
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