I have no idea why there's a dependency on xercesImpl... First time I have heard of this.
I agree that our QuickStart needs some work. Volunteers are always welcome. :-) Kevin On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Georgi Naplatanov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Paul. > > You may consider to add commons-dbcp and commons-pool jars for > connection pooling. You may use commons-pool for pooling EntityManager > instances. > > Best regards > Georgi > > Paul Copeland wrote: > > I am just getting started and created a simple standalone (not in an app > > server container) JPA application working with both TopLink and OpenJPA > > 1.2 and tested with both MySQL and Postgres. This is with Java SE > > 1.5.0_05 building with Ant (not in in an IDE). > > > > By trial and error I found I needed the jar files downloaded in the > > apache-openjpa-1.2.0 lib directory. I also needed xercesImpl.jar. I did > > not find these dependencies documented in the release notes, or in the > > manual, or on the Quickstart page > > (http://openjpa.apache.org/quick-start.html). > > > > These were the necessary jars at either compile time or runtime - > > > > commons-collections-3.2.jar > > commons-lang-2.1.jar > > geronimo-jpa_3.0_spec-1.0.jar > > geronimo-jta_1.1_spec-1.1.jar > > openjpa-1.2.0.jar > > serp-1.13.1.jar > > xercesImpl.jar > > > > Probably I will also need commons-pool-1.3.jar or something similar for > > Connection pooling. > > > > Presumably the geronimo jars are not needed in a Java 5 EE container. > > I'm not sure why xerces is required since Java SE 1.5 has a SAX parser. > > I guess all the other jars need to be deployed in the classpath in most > > other contexts. > > > > This kind of dependency information might be usefully documented > > somewhere. Every new user has to figure this stuff out. > > > > BTW - My target runtime environment will be Tomcat 6 + Java SE 1.6 + > > OpenJPA 1.2 + Postgres 8.2.x > > > > Any experience or advice about what jars are required or is this already > > documented somewhere? > > > > Thanks - Paul > > > > > >
