Jay Walters wrote:
>
> I hate to ask a stupid question (but I want to anyways), so what's a RAR?
Some kind of masochism?
A RAR is a Resource Adapter aRchive, or maybe a Resource adapter
ARchive. See the J2EE Connector Spec.
> And what extra tools will we need to use with JBoss to get to Minerva with
> these latest changes?
I'm not sure what you mean by "get to Minerva". Read the connector spec
and have a look at org.jboss.resource.ConnectionFactoryLoader in
jbosscx.
Toby.
> Cheers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Mulder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 12:18 AM
> To: jBoss Developer
> Subject: [jBoss-Dev] Where do .RARs go?
>
> After the most recent updates, you can use the JBossCX connector
> module with the Minerva .RARs for JDBC and JDBC/XA support. However, I'm
> not sure where the .RARs should go in CVS and in the dist directory. I
> suppose they should ultimately end up in dist/deploy so they are deployed
> when the server is started. So how about putting them in src/connectors
> and then altering the build to dump them in dist/deploy?
> The only issue is that we'll alter the xxxDataSourceLoaders to use
> connectors under the covers, and when we do the Minerva .RARs will be
> required for basic server operation. So it's a little misleading to
> put them in dist/deploy, which looks like a directory for "user data".
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Aaron
