Re: [Exist-open] Newbie - embedded mode - Questions

[Wolfgang M. <me...@if...>]

Hi,

> First Question:
>
> When I do javac, I only get an error saying something like the packages to
> be imported could not be found...

eXist uses Ant to compile. Calling 

build.sh samples

will compile the files and create examples.jar. I would also recommend to use 
Ant to compile your own application. Just use the supplied build.xml and 
adjust it to your needs.

> Second Question:
>
> I intend to use the samples and combine them to some little application in
> Java accessing eXist directly through the xmldb:api. I`ve already read the
> documentation for using eXist in embedded mode but as I am new to Java, I
> am still wondering what packages I would need when I only want to use eXist
> in that way.

We need to document this for the next release. Anyway, the following jars are 
required:

exist.jar
lib/core/xmldb.jar
lib/core/xmlrpc-1.1.jar
lib/core/log4j.jar
lib/core/fastutil-2.52.jar
lib/core/resolver-20020130.jar
lib/core/jakarta-oro-2.0.6.jar
lib/core/antlr.jar

lib/core/xercesImpl.jar and lib/core/xml-apis.jar are also needed, but they 
are already contained in jdk1.4.1, so you can first try without them. With 
some Java versions, it might also be necessary to copy these two jars into 
the $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/endorsed directory. Otherwise you may get error 
messages from the XML parser.

Best regards,

Wolfgang