On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Miles Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrea Aime wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Miles Jordan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Does Geoserver 2.1 change the structure of the data directory at >> all? >> >> It does add some elements in the xml config files. >> Data directories are backwards compatible, not forwards, meaning once >> you use them with version n+1 you cannot generally go back to n >> without manually fixing the dir. >> >>> I deployed 2.1 on my testing server (Ubuntu 8.4/Tomcat 6/war) and >> then undeployed it but now when I try starting 2.0.2 again it fails >> with: >>> >>> CannotResolveClassException: coverageAccess >> >> Hum... I know a virtual services element was added in global.xml, as >> well as a coverage access one. >> Remove them both and 2.0.2 might be able to open the data dir (unless >> I'm forgetting other additions). > > Too late.. I restored a backed up copy and it works again. Good to know that > it's not backwards compatible though. All good :p
Backwards compatible it is: version N can always read data directories created by version N-X (with a small X ;-) ) Forwards compatible it is not: version N cannot read data directories created by N+X Cheers Andrea ----------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime Senior Software Engineer GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584962313 fax: +39 0584962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
