Re: class.forName() and java.sql

[Lars Andersen <lars at rimfaxe dot com>]

On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 23:56, Erik Poupaert wrote:
> 
> I've natively compiled hSql into libhsql.a in order to embed an rdb in a
> test application I'm creating on minGW.
> 
> The first snag is the fact that java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection()
> doesn't work, because class.forName() doesn't work. I circumvented the
> problem by using directly the jdbcDriver class. But then I ran into another
> snag:
> 
> """java.sql.SQLException: java.util.MissingResourceException: Bundle
> gnu.java.locale.Calendar not found."""
> 
> I guess it's related to the same problem, i.e., the fact that
> class.forName() doesn't work; since the java.util.date and
> java.util.Calendar related methods seem to use class.forName(). But on top
> of that, it's very hard to locate the problem and work around it, because I
> can't get a stacktrace on minGW in this version of GCJ.
> 

Class.forName() works for me, but classes you load thru Class.forName()
may not be linked with the executable. (Meaning the class has to be
found in the classpath.)

I solve the gnu.java.locale.Calendar  issue by adding lines like 

 private static Class c1 = gnu.java.locale.Calendar.class; 
 private static Class c2 = gnu.java.locale.LocaleInformation.class;  

in my Calendar utility class. The trick is that these lines forces gcj
to link the classes into the executable. Perhaps this approach will
solve your JDBC issue as well.

/Lars Andersen