Andreas, as explained in http://cstor.codehaus.org/release-notes.html, the syntax for the JDO configuration file has changed. In your case, the <database> element needs to be framed with a <jdo-conf> element, and don't forget to add the <transaction-demarcation>,
Regards Werner wg> -----Original Message----- wg> From: Andreas Vombach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wg> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 2:29 PM wg> To: [email protected] wg> Subject: [castor-user] [jdo] castor and dbcp wg> wg> wg> I've been using castor 0.9.5.3 successfully on tomcat with wg> it's dbcp cache. wg> Now I want to do two things: wg> wg> 1) switch to castor 0.9.6 wg> 2) use dbcp standalone without tomcat wg> wg> I'm trying to figure out how the config file has to look wg> like, I tried wg> wg> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> wg> <!DOCTYPE databases PUBLIC "-//EXOLAB/Castor JDO Configuration DTD wg> Version 1.0//EN" "http://castor.exolab.org/jdo-conf.dtd"> wg> <database name="mydb" engine="oracle" > wg> <data-source class-name="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"> wg> <param name="url" wg> value="jdbc:oracle:thin:@server.host.domain:1521:mydb" /> wg> <param name="driver-class-name" wg> value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" /> wg> <param name="username" value="user" /> wg> <param name="password" value="pass" /> wg> <param name="max-active" value="10" /> wg> </data-source> wg> <mapping href="castor-mapping.xml" /> wg> </database> wg> wg> which does not seem to work. It complains at line 4 wg> wg> "... unable to find Field Descriptor for 'data-source' in wg> ClassDescriptor of jdo-conf ..." wg> wg> Any ideas about that? wg> wg> Cheers Andreas wg>

