As an aside to the overall discussion; the jTDS driver can be used to access SQL Server and Sybase databases. Choose net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver and then specify the URL with the following syntax jdbc:jtds:<sqlserver|sybase>://<server>[:<port>][/database] [;property=value]
-- Scott On Sep 30, 1:09 pm, Jody <[email protected]> wrote: > Holger, > > Just wanted to throw in one more request for this flexibility. It was > available in earlier versions via a Driver URL text field, but when > the import wizard was updated to include a drop-down selection it was > taken away. There's another post about it somewhere in the history. > I do like the drop-down with connection string templates, but agree > that it'd be good to have a custom driver selection as well. > > Thanks, > Jody > > On Sep 30, 12:38 pm, Holger Knublauch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi David, > > > the difference between D2RQ stand-alone and TBC is that TBC runs > > inside Eclipse and the Eclipse platform (Equinox) has a different > > ClassLoader policy, which makes it more difficult to dynamically > > access classes such as JDBC drivers (which are typically called using > > Class.forName). We need to add some alternative mechanism to find > > those drivers. This hasn't made it to the top of our priorities list > > because there were no requests for other drivers than those provided > > by default. But now that I have your request, I will push it up the > > todo list. > > > Thanks, > > Holger > > > On Sep 30, 2009, at 7:32 AM, David Park wrote: > > > > Well, practically speaking, let's say I choose SQLite for a low- > > > overhead-run-on-my-machine-database for demo purposes. Shouldn't I be > > > able to generically add a jar file containing my class file, then > > > specify that? > > > > What if I have some enhancements to the MySQL JDBC driver, and want to > > > use that version instead of the one bundled with TBC. Shouldn't I be > > > able to do so? > > > > What if I write some code that interfaces with a web service, and > > > decide to expose the information by implementing to the JDBC spec? > > > > I can do this with D2R outside of TBC, why should I not be allowed to > > > do so with TBC? > > > > Thanks! > > > > On Sep 29, 1:32 pm, Holger Knublauch <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hi David, > > > >> which particular JDBC driver would you need? > > > >> Holger > > > >> On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:14 AM, David Park wrote: > > > >>> If I want to import data from a JDBC datasource via D2RQ, yet the > > >>> Driver Class is not in the list of pre-canned driver classes, what > > >>> can > > >>> I do? > > > >>> I.E.: > > >>> File->Import->TopBraid Composer->RDF/OWL View on Relational Database > > >>> via D2RQ > > > >>> My Driver Class is not listed in the Driver Class dropdown. > > > >>> Please advise.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TopBraid Composer Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-composer-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
