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Subject: some contrib projects broken
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:07:48 -0800
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From: "Michael Wilson" <mwilson@imageworks.com>
To: <jackrabbit-dev@incubator.apache.org>

I just did a fresh checkout from SVN of the Jackrabbit trunk including
the contrib directories and attempted to build them.  A few problems:

1) JackRabbit ORM Persistence Manager project won't build.
   * Complains that it can't download
mysql-connector-java.3.0.10-stable-bin.jar from www.day.com/maven/mysql
...
   * If you manually place the proper file in the .maven jar's
repository it will compile.
   * All of the unit tests fail for this build (although this may be
because I don't have a mysql db avaialble >< )

2) JCR Node Type and Namespace Utilies don't build.
   * Refuses to compile.  Complains about SchemaConverter.java:71:
cannot find symbol : method loadURI()

Just FYI.  I'll poke around the mailing list to see if this can be fixed
...

Mike=20

-----Original Message-----
From: Jukka Zitting [mailto:jukka.zitting@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 4:51 PM
To: jackrabbit-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Current docs? Examples?

Hi,

On 3/1/06, Michael Wilson <mwilson@imageworks.com> wrote:
> There once was a thread with step by step instructions on how to=20
> install Jackrabbit on Tomcat (including the RMI functionality).  I see

> reference that the final version was published somewhere in the wiki=20
> but in searching I can't find this document anywhere in there.

Which thread are you referring to?

> The version of the document I can find in the discussion groups=20
> appears to be for the 1.0-SNAPSHOT version.  Correct me if I'm wrong=20
> but the new .9 versions that were recently posted have been=20
> significantly refactored from the previous versions (I don't see a=20
> server/client.jar anywere which is referenced in the step-by-step=20
> instructions) so I'm afraid the previous thread's instructions are now
out of date.

There are no major changes in 0.9 or in the upcoming 1.0 release. The
reason 0.9 may seem different is that it does not contain all the
contributed components. For example the WebDAV extensions that you seem
to be referring with the server and client jars is not included in the
0.9 release.

> There is some configuration information on the Jackrabbit home site=20
> but it doesn't give examples of how to configure the repository.xml=20
> file for use with Tomcat.

You are right in that the Jackrabbit documentation is somewhat lacking.
We are slowly working at improving things, and of course all help is
eagerly accepted.

See the deployment howtos under
http://incubator.apache.org/jackrabbit/doc/deploy.html for a brief
introduction on setting up Jackrabbit in various Tomcat deployments.

Mark Slater recently wrote some great Jackrabbit/Tomcat instructions
which can be found at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-319.
Getting those instructions on the Jackrabbit web site is on my todo
list.

> Additionally there seems to be no information on how to configure the=20
> PersistenceManager to work with a relational database anywhere on the=20
> site. Some documented examples would be really helpful.

See the Persistence manager section in the Configuring Jackrabbit page:

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http://incubator.apache.org/jackrabbit/doc/config.html#Persistence_manag
ers

This is probably the best configuration documentation we have at the
moment. Feel free to use the mailing list, wiki, or the issue tracker to
ask for more documentation and examples.

> I'm trying to install the latest .9 release from the downloads area=20
> and can't seem to get it to work with Tomcat 5.5.  Is there any better

> documentation available than on the Jackrabbit website somewhere?

See the documentation at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-319.
There's a version of Mark's instructions also at
http://whisper.cse.ucsc.edu/jackrabbit_deployment_test/.

I hope this helps you get started. :-)

BR,

Jukka Zitting

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