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I'm running: Win98 Tomcat 4.0.3 C2 PostgreSQL 7.2.1 in CYGWIN PostgreSQL JDBC 7.2 Tomcat/common/lib contains: pgjdbc1.jar (containing org.postresql.Driver) jdbc2_0-stdext.jar Cocoon/WEB-INF/lib contains (per a suggestion) pgjdbc1.jar (containing org.postresql.Driver) I've created the "testdb" with the required data and checked that the SQL defined in sql-page.xml works cocoon.xconf: <datasources> <jdbc name="personnel"> <pool-controller min="5" max="10"/> <auto-commit>true</auto-commit> <dburl>jdbc:postgresql:testdb</dburl> <password>foo</password> <driver>org.postgresql.Driver</driver> !!!!! ----- ADDED PER SOMEONE'S SUGGESTION </jdbc> </datasources> and Web.xml contains: <init-param> <param-name>load-class</param-name> <param-value> org.postgresql.Driver </param-value> </init-param> When I run the simple SQL example - which worked with the "built-in" db hsqldb or whatever I get an "Internal Server Error": root cause java.lang.AbstractMethodError at org.apache.avalon.excalibur.datasource.JdbcConnection.prepareStatement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.cocoon.transformation.SQLTransformer$Query.execute(SQLTransformer.java:923) The logs show (at the end) DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:360 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/SQLTransformer: RECEIVED END ELEMENT execute-query(http://apache.org/cocoon/SQL/2.0) DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:360 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/SQLTransformer: SQLTransformer executing query nr 0 DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:360 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/SQLTransformer$Query: EXECUTING select id,name from department_table DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:360 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/DefaultPool: Retrieving a org.apache.avalon.excalibur.datasource.JdbcConnection from the pool DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:360 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/DefaultPool: Returning a org.apache.avalon.excalibur.datasource.JdbcConnection to the pool DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:360 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/DefaultComponentFactory: ComponentFactory decommissioning instance of org.apache.cocoon.components.parser.JaxpParser. DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:360 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/DefaultPool: Returning a org.apache.cocoon.components.sax.XMLByteStreamCompiler to the pool DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:360 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/CachingEventPipeline: Recycling of CachingEventPipeline DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:360 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/DefaultPool: Returning a org.apache.cocoon.generation.FileGenerator to the pool DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:360 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/DefaultPool: Returning a org.apache.cocoon.transformation.SQLTransformer to the pool DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:360 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/DefaultPool: Returning a org.apache.cocoon.transformation.TraxTransformer to the pool DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:360 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/DefaultPool: Returning a org.apache.cocoon.components.pipeline.CachingEventPipeline to the pool DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:360 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/CachingStreamPipeline: Recycling of CachingStreamPipeline DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:410 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/DefaultPool: Returning a org.apache.cocoon.serialization.HTMLSerializer to the pool DEBUG (2002-05-29) 22:40.07:410 [cocoon ] (/cocoon/sql/sql-page) HttpProcessor[8080][4]/DefaultPool: Returning a org.apache.cocoon.components.pipeline.CachingStreamPipeline to the pool After reviewing the above, the source code and the error message I can't figure out what is wrong. PLEASE HELP! Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]