Location of DB Drivers in JBoss 3 Beta

[greathavoc]

Hi,

It seems that the location for the DB drivers have changed since the Alpha. In the alpha one would put them in the JBoss/lib/ext directory. Now it seems that JBoss looks in JBoss/deploy instead. Anyone know whether this is intentional and whether this can be changed?

Thanks,

Jim

[zeroman]

You can use XML tag in your file





It works fine.

[davidjencks]

What problem do you have putting driver jars in lib/ext? You should not need the classpath tag with jboss 3 beta or cvs.

[chriss]

I've actually got the very same problem that Jim describes. The alpha version didn't have any problem with my jdbc jar in lib/ext/. However with beta this is not the case anymore (see exception).
Putting the jar in the deploy directory 'solves' the problem. I seem to remember some discussion about external classes etc. that don't work anymore in lib/ext due to a bug introduced into the deployer.

15:59:33,963 INFO [MainDeployer] Deploying: file:/usr/java/jboss-3.0.0beta/deploy/postgres-service.xml
15:59:33,994 ERROR [SARDeployer] operation failed
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: url file:/usr/java/jboss-3.0.0beta/deploy/jdbc7.1-1.2.jar could not be opened, does it exist?
at org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo.(DeploymentInfo.java:148)
at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.parseXMLClasspath(SARDeployer.java:475)
at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.init(SARDeployer.java:174)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:449)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:413)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.scan(MainDeployer.java:272)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.startService(MainDeployer.java:218)
at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:160)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.system.Server.(Server.java:157)
at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:263)
at org.jboss.Main.run(Main.java:48)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

[greathavoc]

Hi,

Zeroman is correct, just use the "basedir" attribute and it works. By the way, in Beta2 the external library directory is by default "JBoss\lib". It's no longer Jboss\lib\ext nor Jboss\deploy.

Jim

[greathavoc]

Sorry I mean codebase attribute not basedir attribute.

[davidjencks]

Ok, now I see what you are doing and why there is a problem. Put the driver in lib AND COMPLETELY REMOVE the codebase tag, it is no longer necessary.