Re: Deploying my application (nesting the jar)

I managed to resolve this problem, though not in the
manner I would have liked. For the sake of anyone who
finds this post I'll pass on my solution.

I used an Eclipse plugin called Fat Jar Eclipse Plugin
on Sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fjep/

This plugin allows me to nest any external jars
included in the project into a single deploy-able jar.

I would have prefer ed to simply include the unpacked
jar in my project, but after 3 days trying to it, this
tool was welcome relief.

If anyone has any suggestions on why I couldn't get
those class files loaded then I'd be happy to hear
it...

My file structure was
/Project
/Source
/org/postgresql/...

I added org/ as a class folder to the build path, but

Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver").newInstance();
always failed.

Cheers,
-Ben

--- Benjamin Stookey <jamstooks(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> So if I extract the jar and include the class files
> in
> my project classpath, do I still instantiate the
> driver using:
>
>
Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver").newInstance();
>
> I appologize for my ignorance on this one.
>
> Below is the .classpath file created by Eclipse. The
> extracted jar is excluded from the source, but
> included as a library. However, I get the "no
> suitable
> driver" SQLException. Also, when I included the Jar
> as
> a library it worked fine, just when I come to
> deploying this it gets complicated.
>
> Thanks,
> -Ben
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <classpath>
> <classpathentry
>
excluding="org/|org/postgresql/|org/|org/|org/postgresql
>
/|org/postgresql/core/|org/postgresql/core/types/|org/postgresql/core/v2/|org/po
>
stgresql/core/v3/|org/postgresql/ds/|org/postgresql/ds/common/|org/postgresql/fa
>
stpath/|org/postgresql/geometric/|org/postgresql/jdbc2/|org/postgresql/jdbc2/opt
>
ional/|org/postgresql/jdbc3/|org/postgresql/largeobject/|org/postgresql/ssl/|org
>
/postgresql/translation/|org/postgresql/util/|org/postgresql/xa/|org/postgresql/
> jdbc3/|org/postgresql/|org/" kind="src" path=""/>
> <classpathentry kind="con"
> path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER
> "/>
> <classpathentry kind="lib" path="org"/>
> <classpathentry kind="output" path="bin"/>
> </classpath>
>
>
> --- Mark Lewis <mark(dot)lewis(at)mir3(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Well, you could actually nest the jar inside of
> > another jar (we've done
> > it here before), but you need to do some ugly
> things
> > like using your own
> > classloader and doing some tricks to avoid the
> > must-be-the-same-
> > classloader security checks DriverManager does.
> >
> > Just including the postgres driver classes
> directly
> > in your jar file is
> > simpler, and that's what we mostly do when we need
> > to bundle an
> > application with build-in PostgreSQL support. Not
> > sure why it's not
> > working for you.
> >
> > -- Mark Lewis
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 15:27 -0800, Benjamin
> Stookey
> > wrote:
> > > I realize that it's not possible to nest the jar
> > in
> > > another jar, but I was wondering if anyone could
> > give
> > > me a suggestion for deploying my application
> using
> > > this jar file.
> > >
> > > I did try extracting the jar to include the
> class
> > > files in my classpath (is this a bad idea?), but
> > once
> > > I did that I get the "No suitable driver"
> > > SQLException. I'm probably making some
> blundering
> > > mistake with my classpath, but I can't figure it
> > out.
> > >
> > > How have other people done this? Ideally, I'd
> like
> > my
> > > application to be in one jar file to make it
> > easier
> > > for my users. I'm still hoping this is
> possible...
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help,
> > > -Ben
> > >
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