[news.eclipse.dtp] Re: cant create new driver definition for derby.jar

["Brian Fitzpatrick" <brianf@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The five plugins with "Apache Derby" in them you mentioned in your initial 
post are all for providing Derby functionality within DTP. None of them 
directly contributes the Derby "derby.jar"

It sounds however that you have the Derby installation at 
/usr/lib/javadb/lib

So... Try this.

1) Go to the Preferences dialog (Window->Preferences)
2) Drill down to the Driver Definitions preference page (Data 
Management->Connectivity->Driver Definitions)
3) Click Add...
4) Select one of the Derby drivers (Derby Embedded JDBC Driver for version 
10.0, 10.1, or 10.2 etc.)
5) Go to the Jar List tab.
6) Select the derby.jar file in the list. Click Edit Jar/Zip...
7) Using the file browse dialog, find the derby.jar on your machine 
(probably in your /usr/lib/javadb/lib directory)
8) Click OK on the file browse dialog.
9) Verify on the New Driver Definition dialog that you don't have that error 
about the jar not being found.
10) Click OK on the New Driver Definition dialog.
11) Then go to create a new Derby connection profile.

Let me know if that helps at all.

Another possibility is to go grab the Apache Derby plug-in wrapper from the 
Apache Derby site 
(http://archive.apache.org/dist/db/derby/db-derby-10.1.1.0/derby_core_plugin_10.1.1.zip) 
and drop that into your Eclipse installation (/eclipse/plugins or 
/eclipse/dropins) and restart your workbench. It should (fingers crossed) 
pick up on the fact that the plug-in exists in the Eclipse directories and 
create a new derby driver definition for you by default.

--Fitz

"Adam Posner" <cuco2772@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:7ef1646e837c77152f48873901ca1a63$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I did try that. Unfortunately, got the same result, though.
> This is turning out to be a perplexing problem.
>