Re: JDBC connection to mysql problem

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
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Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:09:05 +0100
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On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Lew wrote:

On Sep 23, 1:15?pm, Martin Gregorie <mar...@address-in-sig.invalid>
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:21:40 +0300, Donkey Hottie wrote:

That seems to be a desktop app, not a JavaEE app. Are DataSources
available in Java SE too, nowadays?


Yes, in Java 6 SE. However, java.sql.DataSource is simply an interface
that may or may not be implemented by your JDBC provider.

It is not currently supported in PostgresQL 8.4 or 9.0devel: the
documentation for both versions describe Class.forName() and using the
java -Djdbc.drivers=org.postgresql.Driver option as the only ways to
load it.


In Java EE environments PG sets up as a data source just fine. I've
done it repeatedly.

Furthermore, examination of the JDBC JAR for PG shows several
'DataSource' classes in their own 'ds' package, e.g.,
'org.postgresql.ds.PGPoolingDataSource'. I think you are mistaken.


$ jar tf /usr/local/share/java/postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc4.jar | grep -i datasource | sort
org/postgresql/ds/common/BaseDataSource.class
org/postgresql/ds/jdbc23/AbstractJdbc23PoolingDataSource$1.class
org/postgresql/ds/jdbc23/AbstractJdbc23PoolingDataSource.class
org/postgresql/ds/jdbc23/AbstractJdbc23SimpleDataSource.class
org/postgresql/ds/jdbc4/AbstractJdbc4PoolingDataSource.class
org/postgresql/ds/jdbc4/AbstractJdbc4SimpleDataSource.class
org/postgresql/ds/PGConnectionPoolDataSource.class
org/postgresql/ds/PGPoolingDataSource.class
org/postgresql/ds/PGSimpleDataSource.class
org/postgresql/jdbc2/optional/PoolingDataSource.class
org/postgresql/jdbc2/optional/SimpleDataSource.class
org/postgresql/xa/PGXADataSource.class
org/postgresql/xa/PGXADataSourceFactory.class

That jar also contains a

META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver

Which should, i believe, be sufficient for DriverManager to load the
driver without a Class.forName call.

tom

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