Can you post an example of Connection.connect (String, properties)?
My java doc says java.sql.Connection is an interface and doesn't mention a
connect method.
TIA
"Thomas Kellerer" <YQDHXVLMUBXG@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> wizard of oz, 07.05.2008 10:41:
>> I have a need to have a classpath that is determined by the set of jars
a
>> user places into a directory.
>>
>> By way of example, placing jar's into certain directories in a tomcat
web
>> server will cause tomcat to include them into the web applications
class
>> path. An example of this might be a charting package used by the web
app
>> to generate charts.
>>
>> In my specific example, I am building a query tool and I want to be
able
>> to tell users to simply drop the JDBC drivers into a directory and my
app
>> will "pick them up". Thus there would be no need to edit the classpath.
>>
>> My target environment is Java 6.0
>>
>
> You will need to use a URLClassLoader to load the driver(s)
> The only problem is then doing the connection as the DriverManager will
> refuse to use a driver that was loaded by a different classloader.
>
> You have two options to resolve this:
>
> 1) use Connection.connect(String, Properties) directly (bypassing
> DriverManager) 2) create a wrapper class that pretends to be a driver
but
> delegates everything to the real instance (loaded by your own
> classloader).
> I am using option 1) without any problems.
>
> Thomas
>
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