I'm an absolute newbie to JBoss Portal, but I thought I'd like to get Portal 2.0 working with the Firebird 1.5 database and jboss-4.0.3RC2. (jboss-4.0.3RC2 seemed to be working okay without the Portal stuff, so I felt it was stable enough for configuring the Portal services.)

I was optimistic when I read that any Hibernate-supported dialect should work, but am a bit less so after several failed attempts.

To get started, I changed the hibernate.cfg.xml files in the jboss-portal.sar and portal-forums.ear directories to mandate the FirebirdDialect, I created an empty database, and deployed a portlet-firebird-ds.xml with the DB connection info. I then tested the connection outside JBoss to ensure my settings would work. (BTW, I'm using the FirebirdSQL Jaybird drivers.)

However, when I started JBoss, a lot of exceptions were thrown indicating tables were not found. I browsed the database and saw that indeed, no tables were present. I then went into the JMX Manager and used the portal and portal.forums MBean services to create the schema and content. This created the tables and cleared most of the errors.

I'm still getting an error because the JBP_ROLES table was not created. Here's the extract from server.log:

2005-08-21 22:17:47,890 DEBUG [org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl] HQL: from org.jboss.portal.core.impl.role.RoleImpl
2005-08-21 22:17:47,890 DEBUG [org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl] SQL: select roleimpl0_.jbp_rid as jbp1_0_, roleimpl0_.jbp_name as jbp2_0_, roleimpl0_.jbp_displayname as jbp3_0_ from jbp_roles roleimpl0_
2005-08-21 22:17:47,906 DEBUG [org.hibernate.hql.ast.ErrorCounter] throwQueryException() : no errors
2005-08-21 22:17:47,906 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher] about to open PreparedStatement (open PreparedStatements: 0, globally: 0)
2005-08-21 22:17:47,906 DEBUG [org.hibernate.SQL] select first ? roleimpl0_.jbp_rid as jbp1_0_, roleimpl0_.jbp_name as jbp2_0_, roleimpl0_.jbp_displayname as jbp3_0_ from jbp_roles roleimpl0_
2005-08-21 22:17:47,906 INFO [STDOUT] Hibernate: select first ? roleimpl0_.jbp_rid as jbp1_0_, roleimpl0_.jbp_name as jbp2_0_, roleimpl0_.jbp_displayname as jbp3_0_ from jbp_roles roleimpl0_
2005-08-21 22:17:47,906 DEBUG [org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher] preparing statement
2005-08-21 22:17:47,921 DEBUG [org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter] could not execute query [select roleimpl0_.jbp_rid as jbp1_0_, roleimpl0_.jbp_name as jbp2_0_, roleimpl0_.jbp_displayname as jbp3_0_ from jbp_roles roleimpl0_]
org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBSQLException: GDS Exception. 335544569. Dynamic SQL Error
SQL error code = -204
Table unknown
JBP_ROLES
At line 1, column 132.

I browsed the database and saw the table was not there. I'm not sure if other tables are missing. Here are the ones I have:

JBP_FORUMS_CATEGORIES
JBP_FORUMS_FORUMS
JBP_FORUMS_FORUMWATCH
JBP_FORUMS_POLLS
JBP_FORUMS_POSTERS
JBP_FORUMS_POSTS
JBP_FORUMS_TOPICS
JBP_FORUMS_TOPICSWATCH
JBP_FORUMS_WATCH
JBP_ROLE_MEMBERSHIP
JBP_USER_PREF
JBP_USER_PREF_PROP_VALUE
JBP_USER_PREF_SET

I looked through the Portal download for an SQL file that might show all the DDL, but didn't see the DB schema published in the Reference or User Guide. However, I can infer a lot about the the jbp_roles table from the
RoleImpl.hbm.xml file.

I did reread the install instructions a couple of times, but still may be overlooking something obvious.

I'm open to any suggestions except switching from JBoss or Firebird! :) Just point me to where all the

As soon as I can get my install working, I'll post step-by-step instrcutions for any work-arounds I needed to take to get JBoss Portand and Firebird working together.

TIA for any help getting Jboss 4.0, Portal 2.0, and Firebird 1.5 working together. I really hope I've made some simple mistake in my setup because I'm eager to learn about the Portal service and developing some portlets!

jack