Can't instal mysql connector extension for libreoffice

Question

I am trying to install a mysql native connector on libreoffice but I get an error during installation:
"loading component library failed: file:///home.../uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/lu2gkbw6.tmp_/mysql-connector-ooo-1.0.1-linux-intel.oxt/mysqlc.uno.so"
First I thought it was incompatible with LibreOffice 3.4 as it is an OpenOffice.org extension actually, but I tried and it works at least on windows installtion.
Has anyone encountered this?

Answer 1

You would think by now that people would know.
Tomcat (and any other application server) has its own ideas about Classpath. This is necessary so that each web application can have its own individual classpath setup.
The classpath for a web application is
- WEB-INF/classes
- jar files in WEB-INF/lib
- shared jar files. eg in Tomcat jar files in /common/lib and /shared/lib
Setting the system classpath will NOT affect the classpath of a web application.
To solve your problem:
Put mysql-connector-java-3.1.12-bin.jar in your WEB-INF/lib directory.
At that point the class should be found.
Even better set up a JNDI datasource in Tomcat and use that:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html
Better again: Don't put sql code into a JSP. It doesn't belong there.
meh,
evnafets