Problems with JDO 2.1.3

Question

I've been doing development with Kodo JDO 2.1.2 for a couple of weeks now,
and found it to be perfect for the application that I'm developing. When I
downloaded the 2.1.3 release on Friday, everything seemed to be OK. Now I
find that I can no longer compile my Java code (neither what I developed nor
the tutorials) - there seem to be missing classes in the libraries.
Specifically, the CLASSPATH variable is set by the 'jdocmd' batch file to
include the file '%JDODIR%/lib/jdoPFD.jar', which is not part of the
distribution, while the files '%JDODIR%/lib/jdbc2_0_stdext.jar' and
'%JDODIR%/lib/jdo_0_95.jar' (which are part of the distribution) are not put
in CLASSPATH.
I get the Java error message 'package javax.jdo does not exist' as the first
error in each compile, followed by several messages about being unable to
resolve symbols (such as PersistenceManager, Transaction, Query, et cetera).
When I added '%JDODIR%/lib/jdbc2_0_stdext.jar' and
'%JDODIR%/lib/jdo_0_95.jar' to CLASSPATH and removed
'%JDODIR%/lib/jdoPFD.jar', I still had the same errors.
I'm at a loss - if I could go back to JDO 2.1.2, I would, but I can't - it's
not on your download page and I didn't make a backup copy before downloading
JDO 2.1.3 (silly me).
I've attempted to contact Kodo with no luck at all - all the e-mail
addresses bounce, except for '[email protected]', which sends back a
message from '[email protected] on behalf of "RT::s?????????' stating
that is has 'No permission to create tickets in the queue ''." Is there a
problem at Kodo, or is this just a glitch?
Norm Jaffe, ATP Engineering Inc.

Answer 1

"Norman Jaffe" <[email protected]> writes:
Specifically, the CLASSPATH variable is set by the 'jdocmd' batch file to
include the file '%JDODIR%/lib/jdoPFD.jar', which is not part of the
distribution, while the files '%JDODIR%/lib/jdbc2_0_stdext.jar' and
'%JDODIR%/lib/jdo_0_95.jar' (which are part of the distribution) are not put
in CLASSPATH.Oops. jdo_0_95.jar should be named jdoPFD.jar. jdbc2_0_stdext.jar is
not strictly required -- it is only necessary if you are using a JDBC
2.0 database driver that does not include these classes in its
distribution.
When I added '%JDODIR%/lib/jdbc2_0_stdext.jar' and
'%JDODIR%/lib/jdo_0_95.jar' to CLASSPATH and removed
'%JDODIR%/lib/jdoPFD.jar', I still had the same errors.I'm surprised that your problems did not go away when you changed the
class path. How did you change it? Did you try editing jdocmd.bat
directly, and then opening a new shell?
I've attempted to contact Kodo with no luck at all - all the e-mail
addresses bounce, except for '[email protected]', which sends back a
message from '[email protected] on behalf of "RT::s?????????' stating
that is has 'No permission to create tickets in the queue ''." Is there a
problem at Kodo, or is this just a glitch?Again, oops. We recently moved our support server, and clearly we did
not set it up correctly. Sorry. It should be better now.
Norm Jaffe, ATP Engineering Inc.-Patrick Linskey