I agree with you and have a solution in mind. I have logged a feature request
on the sourceforge site and will implement it when/if I get time.
Oh, I just saw your entry (1 minute before me). The JAWS mappings are a
separate issue to the XADataSourceLoader support, so that works nicely I
think.
Toby.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:51:39AM +0200, Schneider, Joerg (Zentrale Frankfurt) wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> after reading all the messages in this mailing-list regarding support of
> Informix databases, i've the impression, that supporting this database
> should be easy and could be done with small efforts.
>
> First of all, i want to state what is working (in my opinion) by now (jboss
> 2.1) :
>
> Establishing connections, if the minerva-class XADataSourceImpl is
> used.
> Database operations, if transaction and persistent type is bean
>
> Second, here's what is not working (in my opinion) by now (jboss 2.1) :
>
> If the IfxXADataSource class is used, an exception is thrown while
> starting jboss with message "wrong argument" (please review older messages
> in this mailing-list describing the exact stack-trace).
> If transactions should be handled by the container, an
> runtime-exception is thrown with message "xares not enlisted".
>
> In my opinion, the informix-jdbc driver 2.20JC1 (type 4, XA implemented)
> works fine, except it is missing the methods "setURL" and "setProperties",
> which are used by jboss to configure the XADataResource.
> According to previously sent mail's, the way to configure a XADataSource is
> not part of any specifications, so any vendor can implement whatever methods
> he wants to do configuration. The informix jdbc-driver offers a lot of
> methods to use for config issues (setUser, setPassword, setProperties,
> setDatabase) and is well documented to.
>
> So, a slight change of the jboss config-procedure could make this database
> easily available :-).
>
> For developing and testing purposes, one can obtain all informix-products
> for all platforms from "www.informix.com/evaluate/ after registering
> free-of-charge for a limited period of time.
>
> If anyone has successfully configured an informix database-environment
> (which means, i'm wrong with all my conclusions) with jboss 2.1, please let
> me know.
> Otherwise, i would suggest to enhance jboss the way i mentioned above (this
> is far more easy for a active member of the development community, as it is
> for me, isn't it ?).
>
> Kind regards
>
> Joerg Schneider
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