External jars is specific to guice and would not apply for spring which relies
on other folders.
See this example for custom JDBC drivers with guice james-jpa:
https://github.com/apache/james-project/blob/master/server/apps/jpa-app/docker-compose.yml
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Best regards,
Benoit TELLIER
Genera
I downloaded 3.8.1 JPA-Guice zip and installed it on an AWS linux EC2.
I downloaded the latest mySQL JDBC connector and put the jar in
external-jars. When I start up James, I get several exceptions saying
it can't find com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver. I tried moving the connector
jar into james-se