Re: [udig-devel] uDig Plug-in: net.refractions.udig.catalog.oracle

[Jody Garnett <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jukka Sirviö wrote:
> Hello!
> There was couple of problems in oracle plug-in (thanks to Vitali for 
> resolving these):
>
> 1. "dummy_spatial-8.1.8.jar" -package in geotools -project's 
> oracle-spatial plug-in contains OracleConnection etc. classes which are 
> not compatible with latest releases of JRE, JDBC drivers etc. These 
> classes have to be removed from this package! Otherwise Eclipse does not 
> complain about errors during compilation, instead the errors exists during 
> runtime!

So I plan to try out this idea, making the "unfriendly" databases like 
oracle and db2 only available via an update site. This buys me two things:
- uDig is not downloaded with things that cannot work out of the box
- when installing a "Feature" from an updateSite I can customize the 
install wizard to include a page that tells the users where the 
jdbc-driver can be downloaded from, and lets them point the wizard at to 
the downloaded driver.

I will point out that other Eclipse projects have taken to issuing up 
the same agreement that appears on the websites. And asking the users to 
click "yes".  Oracle is a bit more difficult as they want a series of 5 
questions answered "yes" before making the jar available.

> 2. In database connection's Parameter Map the port should be String 
> instead of Integer. There was at least two places in 
> net.refractions.udig.catalog.oracle where Integer was used! 

I think that may just be a bug with the OracleDataStoreFactory?

> I'll continue testing the plug-in..

Thank you very much - I am glad you have gotten things to work :-)

Jody