If there is no error, then it is unlikely whatever changes you have made are being picked up. Not sure if the repository.xml gets created from the current dir or not (am a drools/java newbie), but try making an explicit change to the default home directory in drools-guvnor.war/WEB-INF/components.xml to remove any doubts about which file you are editing.

Keep in mind that repository.xml is a template for the workspace.xml, so you may need to regen/populate your changes (a new clean home dir setting will do this too).

Once you get an error, it may get easier ;->

Phil

Hi, I'm trying to configure guvnor to use an external database
(mySQL) as its datastore. But I can't get it to work, it seems to
ignore any change I make.

I followed the directions from the project docs. Deployed guvnor (on
JBoss SOA Platform 4.3) , and edited the repository.xml that got
created in bin. I commented out the existing PersistenceManager
config from <workspace> and added this:

<PersistenceManager
class
=
"org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.bundle.MySqlPersistenceManager">
<param name="driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<param name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/
brms"/>
<param name="user" value="brms_user"/>
<param name="password" value="brms_password"/>
<param name="schemaObjectPrefix" value="${wsp.name}_"/>
<param name="schema" value="mysql"/>
</PersistenceManager>