Creating MetaData using workbench

Question

Hi all,
I'm trying to create metadata for some of my files, using the workbench,
without success. When I followed the instructions for the sample classes,
I can load the classes and manipulate them.
However, when I try to do the same with my classes, I can see one of two
things:
1. When choosing to create a class level metadata file, I can choose the
class file from the explorer like window, but the class name does not
get placed on the 'class name to add' edit box in the 'Choose classes'
dialog.
2. When trying to mount a jdo file, I get an exception (SAXException)
and a message that states that a class (the first listed in the file)
cannot be instantiated.
the workbench is configured with class paths that include the correct path,
i.e. my classes are in <classes>\company\product\model\beans and this path
is listed in the classpath config dialog. The workbench was started in
<classes>. The classes are of course compiled. the jdk is on the path
(JDK 5)
When using ant to perform the mapping (that I want to use workbench for)
it all works well.
What gives? What am I doing wrong and how can I get this to work?
Bonny
What am I missing

Answer 1

Hi all,
I'm trying to create metadata for some of my files,
using the workbench,
without success. When I followed the instructions for
the sample classes,
I can load the classes and manipulate them.
However, when I try to do the same with my classes, I
can see one of two
things:
1. When choosing to create a class level metadata
file, I can choose the
class file from the explorer like window, but the
the class name does not
get placed on the 'class name to add' edit box in
in the 'Choose classes'
dialog.
2. When trying to mount a jdo file, I get an
exception (SAXException)
and a message that states that a class (the first
rst listed in the file)
cannot be instantiated.
the workbench is configured with class paths that
include the correct path,
i.e. my classes are in
<classes>\company\product\model\beans and this path
is listed in the classpath config dialog. The
workbench was started in
<classes>. The classes are of course compiled. the
jdk is on the path
(JDK 5)
When using ant to perform the mapping (that I want to
use workbench for)
it all works well.
What gives? What am I doing wrong and how can I get
this to work?
Bonny
What am I missing
Ok, so I've found in another post that you need to explicitly specify the path to the compiled classes in the classpath arg when starting the kodo workbench. Previously however, I had only specified the path to the root of my project (the directory with bin & src as children) as the value of the "directory" argument. I'm assuming that the previous src & bin directories that were showing up (they still show now ...) are because of this setting. Although I can successfully choose a class to create metadata for, this still doesn't seem like things are configured correctly. More insight would be helpful!
Thanks,
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