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reply from <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/bfitzpat">Brian Fitzpatrick</a> in <i>JBoss Tools</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/552406#552406">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>That's certainly part of the equation - making sure that the driver jar is available on the Eclipse classpath.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>But there's another step... Once you have your jar wrapped in a plug-in, you have to tell the driver template where to find it. You can do that with a driver template override...</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>For example, if I've exposed my derby.jar for a Derby database JDBC driver in plug-in org.eclipse.datatools.derby.wrapper... I can override the jar list of that driver so that it automatically picks it up.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><plugin><br/>   <extension<br/>         point="org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.driverExtension"><br/>      <driverTemplateOverride<br/>            jarList="[org.eclipse.datatools.derby.wrapper]/lib/derby.jar"<br/>            priority="1"<br/>            targetId="org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.db.derby102.genericDriverTemplate"><br/>      </driverTemplateOverride></p><p>          </extension></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"></plugin></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>If you want it to automatically add the driver instance the first time the DriverManager is fired up (i.e. whenever you fire up the Data Source Explorer it'll check to see if the default driver instance has been created), you just add createDefault = true like this:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><extension<br/>         point="org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.driverExtension"><br/>      <driverTemplateOverride<br/>            createDefault="true"<br/>            jarList="[org.eclipse.datatools.derby.wrapper]/lib/derby.jar"<br/>            priority="1"<br/>            targetId="org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.db.derby102.genericDriverTemplate"><br/>      </driverTemplateOverride><br/>   </extension></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Hope that helps!</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>--Fitz</p></div>
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