JDBC Drivers, Limited Support

The following JDBC drivers can also be used with Enterprise Server, but have not been fully tested. Although Sun offers no product support for these drivers, Sun does offer limited support for the use of these drivers with Enterprise Server:

• IBM Informix Type 4 Driver for Sun/DataDirect

• Inet Oraxo JDBC Driver for Oracle Databases

• Inet Merlia JDBC Driver for Microsoft SQL Server Databases

• Inet Sybelux JDBC Driver for Sybase Databases

• JConnect Type 4 Driver for Sybase ASE 12.5 Databases

An Oracle database user running the capture-schema command needs ANALYZE ANY TABLE privileges if that user does not own the schema. These privileges are granted to the user by the database administrator. For information about capture-schema, see Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Reference Manual.

IBM Informix Type 4 Driver for Sun/DataDirect

Configure the connection pool using the following settings:

• Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.

• Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.

• Database Vendor: Informix

• DataSource Classname: Specify one of the following:

  com.informix.jdbcx.IfxDataSource
  com.informix.jdbcx.IfxXADataSource

  DataDirect DataSource Classname: com.ddtek.jdbcx.informix.InformixDataSourcee

• Properties:

  • serverName – Specify the Informix database server name.

  • portNumber – Specify the port number of the database server.

  • databaseName – Set as appropriate. This is optional.

  • user – Set as appropriate.

  • password – Set as appropriate.

  • IfxIFXHost – Specify the host name or IP address of the database server.

Inet Oraxo JDBC Driver for Oracle Databases

The JAR file for the Inet Oracle driver is Oranxo.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:

• Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.

• Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.

• Database Vendor: Oracle

• DataSource Classname: com.inet.ora.OraDataSource

• Properties:

  • serverName – Specify the host name or IP address of the database server.

  • portNumber – Specify the port number of the database server.

  • user – Specify the database user.

  • password – Specify the database password.

  • serviceName – Specify the URL of the database. The syntax is as follows:

    jdbc:inetora:server:port:dbname
    

    For example:

    jdbc:inetora:localhost:1521:payrolldb

    In this example,localhost is the name of the host running the Oracle server, 1521 is the Oracle server’s port number, and payrolldb is the SID of the database. For more information about the syntax of the database URL, see the Oracle documentation.

  • streamstolob - If the size of BLOB or CLOB data types exceeds 4 KB and this driver is used for CMP, this property must be set to true.

  • xa-driver-does-not-support-non-tx-operations - Set to the value true. Only needed if both non-XA and XA connections are retrieved from the same connection pool. Might degrade performance.

    As an alternative to setting this property, you can create two connection pools, one for non-XA connections and one for XA connections.

Inet Merlia JDBC Driver for Microsoft SQL Server Databases

The JAR file for the Inet Microsoft SQL Server driver is Merlia.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:

• Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.

• Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.

• Database Vendor: Microsoft SQL Server

• DataSource Classname: com.inet.tds.TdsDataSource

• Properties:

  • serverName – Specify the host name or IP address and the port of the database server.

  • portNumber – Specify the port number of the database server.

  • user – Set as appropriate.

  • password – Set as appropriate.

Inet Sybelux JDBC Driver for Sybase Databases

The JAR file for the Inet Sybase driver is Sybelux.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:

• Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.

• Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.

• Database Vendor: Sybase

• DataSource Classname: com.inet.syb.SybDataSource

• Properties:

  • serverName – Specify the host name or IP address of the database server.

  • portNumber – Specify the port number of the database server.

  • databaseName – Set as appropriate. Do not specify the complete URL, only the database name.

  • user – Set as appropriate.

  • password – Set as appropriate.

JConnect Type 4 Driver for Sybase ASE 12.5 Databases

The JAR file for the Sybase driver is jconn4.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:

• Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.

• Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.

• Database Vendor: Sybase

• DataSource Classname: Specify one of the following:

  com.sybase.jdbc4.jdbc.SybDataSource
  com.sybase.jdbc4.jdbc.SybXADataSource

• Properties:

  • serverName – Specify the host name or IP address of the database server.

  • portNumber – Specify the port number of the database server.

  • databaseName – Set as appropriate. Do not specify the complete URL, only the database name.

  • user – Set as appropriate.

  • password – Set as appropriate.

  • BE_AS_JDBC_COMPLIANT_AS_POSSIBLE – Set to true.

  • FAKE_METADATA – Set to true.