Hello Dale,
Dale Bronk wrote:
> I have been monitoring this list for a while and have not had time to try
> out Orion yet. Well I found that I had a half hour so I jumped in and tried
> to set up the ejb demo that comes with it. I noticed many posts about how
> it doesn't work. Well I am having problems also. I followed the
> instructions and get the following error:
> Error initializing server: ConnectionDataSource driver
> 'connect.microsoft.MicrosoftDriver' not found
>
> Well I placed my jar file in orion/lib just like the install.txt said to
> do... What now.
>
Double check your spelling of your class name and that the class is accessible
in the jar file. you can also try putting the jar in your lib/ext/ directory in
your jre dir.
>
> Also, here is possibly a stupid question... I could not find in the
> install.txt what the database should look like (tables and columns). Does
> this not hit a db? If not, why do we need a datasource?
The tables can be manually created by you if you wish, but Orion will
auto-generate any tables you need. A point of Container Managed Percistence is
that you shouldn't have to care about the actual DBMS.
>
> There was a post earlier by Karl Avedal who I assume is part of the Orion
> team that said to expect the GUI tools very soon with BIG enhancements.
They are in testing and the new version of the gui tools will be included in our
next official release that is due this week.
Of course you can already use the betas of the GUI tools that were shipped with
your version of Orion. However the Administration tool is new for this release.
>
> When is very soon and what will the GUI tools help with? Will the tools
> help me with this?
No, the GUI tools will not really help you find your JDBC driver.
> I know I am not the first to ask for this and will not be the last, but why
> aren't you (Orion) listening? I will be glad to fork over $1500 to you even
> without GUI tools if I could get some decent documentation.
So far Orion is not fully documented but as I have pointed out before, we will
make sure documentation gets alot better and it is very important for us as
well. Believe me, we are listening but there are many things on our priority
lists before Orion is perfect in all areas. However, I wonder if you can find
any J2EE server that is fully documented and works nearly as good as Orion, J2EE
is very new technology, and living on the bleeding edge has its disadvantages as
well as advantages.
Regards
Karl Avedal
