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 -
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