Datasource portlet is not enabled on 3.0-M1. You may try the datasource
wizard on 3.0 and use @resource annotation in your sample code.
HTH.
Jeff
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Tyson P. Patterson
<tpatter...@carnes.com>wrote:
> I am getting the ClassNotFound exception trying to use the Microsoft SQL
> Driver with Geronimo 3.0 M1.
>
> Here is the setup:
> I am running Windows XP Professional 32 bit.
> I have Eclipse Helios SR 2 with the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin 3.0 M1 for
> my development environment. I am using 6.0.23 for the JRE version.
> I installed Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008 R2. I installed Microsoft
> JDBC Driver 3.0.
>
> From inside Eclipse I was able to establish a database connection to the
> SQL Express database using the sqljdbc4.jar file from the Microsoft JDBC
> Driver installation.
>
> I loaded the sqljdbc4.jar file into Geronimo 3.0's Repository using the
> console. I specified com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc as the group,
> SQLServerDriver as the artifact, 3.0 as the version and jar as the type.
>
> I started a new JSF project in Eclipse. In the Geronimo Deployment
> Plan, I selected the SQLServerDriver I loaded in the repository from the
> drop down list of Server Dependencies. Eclipse generated the dependency
> in geronimo-web.xml as follows:
>
> <dep:dependency>
> <dep:groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc</dep:groupId>
> <dep:artifactId>SQLServerDriver</dep:artifactId>
> <dep:version>3.0</dep:version>
> <dep:type>jar</dep:type>
> </dep:dependency>
>
> I created a session bean and put the connection information in the
> constructor for the class:
>
> Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver");
> String connectionUrl = "jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;" +
> "databaseName=XXXXXXXX;user=XXXX;password=XXXXXXXX;";
> conn = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionUrl);
>
> After publishing the application and starting it, I got the exception:
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
>
> I was unable to find how to set the SQL Server connection information on
> the Geronimo 3.0 server as a database pool using the console.
>
> Any ideas on where I went wrong or what step I forget?
>
> Tyson Patterson
> Carnes Company
>
>
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