Alex,
Unless you created the collection "root", it doesn't exist. The
default used to be it was there automatically. I believe the installation
no longer creates it. Try listing the collections to see if it is there.
Or
add a collection to be sure it is there.
HTH,
Mark
Alexander Schatten wrote:
> I fail to write a simple java application accessing dbXML/XIncice:
>
> (1) I start dbxml on localhost
>
> (2) I try to connect to the database using this code:
>
> org.xmldb.api.base.Collection col = null;
> try {
> Class c = Class.forName("");
>
> Database database = (Database) c.newInstance();
> DatabaseManager.registerDatabase(database);
> col =
> DatabaseManager.getCollection("xmldb:dbxml://localhost:4080/db/root");
>
> ...
> ...
>
> I receive an exception. btw. I tried a lot of different URIs also
> xmldb:dbxml:///db and so on.
>
> "org.xmldb.api.base.XMLDBException: A connection to the Database
> instance 'db' could not be created. Error: http://localhost:4080/db.ior";
>
> (3) sometimes I receive an error (even with the method from the
> documentation):
>
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/dbxml/server/dbXMLException
>
> I searched through the jars and found neither this class, nor the server
> package...? so even the example programs will not work???
>
> please can anyone give me assistance?
>
> thank you
>
> Alex
>
> btw.: I found no place in the documentation where is explained which
> jars have to be added to the classpath when writing a java application...
