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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I want to set up p6spy, but jboss is not using the pass thru driver it appears.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>My question is:      Is <driver-class> effectively ignored but it's presence required?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Setup:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>jboss 6.1.0 final</p><p>mysql 5.5</p><p>Both running on the same windows XP machine.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>CLASSPATH: D:\opt\jboss\jboss-6.1.0.Final\server\all\conf;D:\opt\jboss\jboss-6.1.0.Final\bin\run.jar</p><p>D:\opt\jboss\jboss-6.1.0.Final\server\all\conf\spy.properties</p><p>D:\opt\jboss\jboss-6.1.0.Final\server\all\lib\p6spy.jar</p><p>D:\opt\jboss\jboss-6.1.0.Final\server\all\deploy\mysql-ds.xml</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>It seems I can enter any random string in the <driver-class> tag. It makes no difference. I start jboss with a database with no tables. New jboss tables are created as expected, despite driver-class not being meaningful. If I delete the tag however, jboss complains and cannot speak to the database.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>mysql-ds.xml</p><p><datasources></p><p>  <local-tx-datasource></p><p>    <jndi-name>DefaultDS</jndi-name></p><p>    <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jbossdb</connection-url></p><p>    <driver-class>randomblah</driver-class></p><p>    <user-name>myuser</user-name></p><p>    <password>#</password></p><p>    <exception-sorter-class-name>org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.vendor.MySQLExceptionSorter</exception-sorter-class-name> </p><p>    <valid-connection-checker-class-name>org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.vendor.MySQLValidConnectionChecker</valid-connection-checker-class-name> </p><p>    <metadata></p><p>       <type-mapping>mySQL</type-mapping></p><p>    </metadata></p><p>  </local-tx-datasource></p><p></datasources></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">mysql> show tables;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">+-------------------+</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">| Tables_in_jbossdb |</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">+-------------------+</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">| hilosequences     |</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">| timers            |</span></p></div>
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