[protege-discussion] Connect with Database

[Jennifer Vendetti]

Hi Paul,

Paul Smith wrote:
> I tried to convert my project into a database, but it keeps messaging that the jdbc driver is not in the classpath. In effect I have modified the classpath environment variable and copy/rename the driver as suggested by the guidelines in: 
> http://protege.stanford.edu/doc/users_guide/projects/saving_a_database_project.html and also edited  Protégé.lax to add the driver,  but unsuccessfully. 
>   

You don't need to modify the Protege.lax file.  In the default Protege 
installation, the LAX file already has the "lax.class.path" variable 
properly configured as such:

lax.class.path=protege.jar;looks-2.1.3.jar;unicode_panel.jar;driver.jar;driver0.jar;driver1.jar;driver2.jar...

This is why the instructions say to copy your database driver(s) to the 
root directory of your Protege installation and rename it/them to 
"driver.jar", etc.  If you copied your database driver(s) into the root 
directory of your Protege installation and renamed it/them to 
"driver.jar", etc., Protege will recognize them.

How are you launching Protege?  Are you double-clicking on the 
executable file?

> The strange fact is that the other plugins, for example DataMaster, are able to find the driver (I am actually using mysql-connector-java-5.1.6-bin), 
> whereas only the default driver (sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver) it is found by the export tool.
>   

DataMaster comes with a MySQL JDBC driver in it's own plug-in directory 
that it uses.  So, the fact that DataMaster is working is not related to 
the other problems you are having with saving your file project to a 
database.

Jennifer