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From: Colin B. <col...@te...> - 2003-06-10 03:54:23
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Hi Bill, > I am attempting to add a "firebird", nee "Interbase", driver on > the extra > class path tab. All seems to go well. Unfortunately, the driver > never shows > up as one that may be selected. I haven't used Interbase/Firebird for a while but I've previously had SQuirreL successfully connected to it with both the old Interclient driver and the new Firebird JDBC driver. What exactly do you mean when you say "the driver never shows up as one that may be selected"? Are you creating a new driver definition, adding the driver jar(s) to the extra class path, saving it but the new driver doesn't show in the Driver dropdown in the Alias maintenance dialog? A couple of things to look at: - I've had a reported problem where changing the jars that a driver definition refers to doesn't change the icon from unavailable to available in the drivers list dialog but the driver still works. If this is your problem then the Interbase driver should be useable. The icon fixes itself when SQuirreL restarts. I haven't been able to duplicate this problem. - Try placing the driver jars in your CLASSPATH or in your jre/lib/ext directory. I've had some reports of older drivers (I can't remember which drivers/DBMS's now) where the driver wouldn't work when specified in the "Extra Classpath" tab. Updating to the latest drivers fixed this problem. - Which version of Firebird server and JDBC driver are you using? Which operating system and Java version? If you're using java 1.3.0 I'd recommend upgrading to at least 1.3.1, preferably 1.4. 1.3.0 has a number of serious problems. -- Colin Bell http://squirrel-sql.sf.net |
