[Squirrel-sql-users] List Drivers button in Add or Modify Driver window

[Matthew D. <mda...@su...>]

Hi all,

With SQuirreL 1.1 I used to add a new driver to the list by opening the Add
or Modify Driver window, selecting the relevant jar file, and then clicking
the "List Drivers" button. SQuirreL would parse the file for a few seconds
and then populate the dropdown list with the driver classes it found.

In SQuirreL 2.1 and 2.2, when I follow the same steps it doesn't parse the
selected jar file, but instead it parses all files in the classpath. Though
in principle this sounds OK... in practice it's not good on my machine. I
have 25 files in my Java classpath today... and SQuirreL takes 100% of the
processing power on my machine for well over 40 minutes parsing them. It's a
bummer.

Eventually I realized that using the Extra Class Path tab was a far better
solution.

So perhaps the documentation should make this distinction more clearly:
You CAN put driver jar files in the Java Class Path or in the Extra Class
Path. But you OUGHT to put just the SQuirreL files in the Java Class Path
and put the JDBC driver files in the Extra Class Path.

I guess I should submit it as a feature request for the documentation.
Any comments from anyone before I submit it?

Regards,
Matt