Before getting to my questions and problems I'll offer the following caveats in the hope that future novices to this product may suffer less.
I am using the downloaded version of dbXML (1.04b) not the CVS version with JDK 1.3.1.01. This is a Mandrake Linux v8.0 system. 1 - Use JDK 1.3 not the 1.4beta. The 1.4 partially worked, the server would run and the dbxml[admin] commands worked, but the XMLRPC tests gave 1 failure and 2 errors. The tests worked correctly with 1.3. 2 - With Mandrake 8.0 and JDK 1.3 issue the command 'ulimit -s 2048' prior to starting the dbXML server and before any other java related command (like running the XMLRPC tests.) Errors you might get include a core dump (on the start for the dbXML server) or a segmentation fault (when running the XMLRPC tests.) Note that this applies to other Linux systems besides Mandrake Linux 8.0 - see the Java.Sun.com site for details (most recently at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/install-linux-sdk.html) 3 - The start script in $DBXML_HOME checks the file config/dbxml.pid to determine if a dbXML server is already running. If you don't take down the server properly (or for some other reason have this file lying around) it will not start the server. Just delete the file if the specified process doesn't really exist. 4 - The dbXML-XMLRPC/docs/README file says to "Copy the helma-xmlrpc.jar and dbxml-xmlrpc.jar file" to the java/lib. This means (I assume) to copy the dbxml-xmlrpc-0.5.1.jar file. These files are in the lib directory. 5 - To test the dbXML-XMLRPC server you run the 'ant tests'. This must be executed from the dbXML-XMLRPC directory where you will find the build.xml file and the tests directory. 6 - In order for the XMLRPC 'ant tests' to work correctly and not report and error you must not have any extraneous documents in the rpctests collection. If you add a document before running the tests you will receive an error. Hope this helps someone. Jimmy Little (828) 835-8350 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you." --Sholom Aleichem
