Class not found - am I missing something obvious?

[ajk1]

I have been trying to write a new resource adapter. I have a .rar file with a .jar in it containing various classes, including com.teratext.j2ee.dbs.ra.ManagedConnectionFactoryImpl.
But whenever I create a -ds.xml file, I get errors about it not finding the managed connection class.

Does the error below mean its not finding the jar file with the class in it? Or could it mean that the class in the jar file has errors in it (e.g. not inheriting the correct interfaces)? Everything I have read indicates I am doing the right sort of thing - its starting to drive me crazy! Any help greatly appreciated.

Alan

2004-08-30 19:25:57,915 DEBUG [org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.RARDeployment] Starting jboss.jca:service=ManagedConnectionFactory,name=TTDS

2004-08-30 19:25:57,915 ERROR [org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.RARDeployment] Could not find ManagedConnectionFactory class: com.teratext.j2ee.dbs.ra.ManagedConnectionFactoryImpl

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Unexpected error during load of: com.teratext.j2ee.dbs.ra.ManagedConnectionFactoryImpl, msg=javax/resource/spi/ResourceAdapterAssociation

 at org.jboss.mx.loading.UnifiedClassLoader3.loadClassImpl(UnifiedClassLoader3.java:215)

[adrian.brock]

ResourceAdapterAssociation is part of jca 1.5 (supported by jboss4)
jboss-3.2.x only supports jca 1.0

Ever get that deja vu feeling? I get it a lot.

[ajk1]

D'oh! Sorry about that. I misread the error message - I thought it was saying it could not find my class, but it was really saying it could not find the class referenced by my class.
So I need to decide between JCA 1.0/JBoss 3 and JCA 1.5/JBoss 4 (developer release). I am new to JBoss (and J2EE!), but I am assuming JBoss 4 will be 'stable' soonish, so I guess I may as well develop new code for it.
Thanks.
Alan

[anil.saldhana]

4.0 will be officially released this month. So its a safe assumption.